Book III – Part 04 – Folly Of The Fear Of Death (Lucretius Poems)
Therefore death to usIs nothing, nor concerns us in the least,Since nature of mind is mortal evermore.And just as in ...
Therefore death to usIs nothing, nor concerns us in the least,Since nature of mind is mortal evermore.And just as in ...
Late Senior Bishop, African M. E. Church.Death is the common lot of all, Yet nothing do we so much dread;Nothing, that ...
'Twas brave De Quiros bent the knee before the King of Spain,And "sire," he said, "I bring thy ships in ...
'Twas brave De Quiros bent the knee before the King of Spain,And "sire," he said, "I bring thy ships in ...
White as white butterflies that each one dons Her face their wide white wings to shade withal,Many moon-daisies throng the water-spring. While ...
A hundred years! The very phraseUnsepultures the million'd dead;Three generations in that space,Ghosts of the past, have breathed and fled.Time ...
Should any one speak about intellect and ability, certainly, I possess them;But since good fortune assisteth me not, unto whom ...
Yes! in the sea of life enisled,With echoing straits between us thrown,Dotting the shoreless watery wild,We mortal millions live alone.The ...
OUR oneness is the wrestlers', fierce and close,Thrusting and thrust;One life in dual effort for one prize,--We fight, and must;For ...
Though I be in the shadow still,And you be in the sun,Sundering divorce the more endears;Division makes us one.From out ...
Long time beside the squatter's gate A great grey Box-Tree, early, late, Or shine or rain, in silence there Had ...
SMALL, fragile, and dark-eyed was Alan's mother, Of Highland blood; her solemn Saxon mate Had ne'er been able quite to ...
ELLA kept anxious vigil by the bed: How strange it is to watch through creeping hours A face which was ...
I (_Before He Comes_) Sweet under swooning blue and mellow mist September waves of forest overflow The hills with crimson, ...
TO THE LATE REV. JAMES POINDEXTER. Weep not! He is not dead- 'Though sepulchered, the tenement of clay, The severance ...
SWATHED in that frame-work quaint, contented rest Ev'n on the rail, my child, as thou art hung:Soon to thy mother's ...
Angelic minds, they say, by simple intelligence Behold the Forms of nature. They discern Unerringly the Archtypes, all the verities ...
I towered far, and lo! I stood within The presence of the Lord Most High, Sent thither by the sons ...
While the far farewell music thins and fails, And the broad bottoms rip the bearing brine - All smalling slowly ...
Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal ...
By dark severance the apparition head Smiles from the air a capital on no Column or a Platonic perhaps head ...
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