Of The Nature Of Things: Book V – Part 07 – Beginnings Of Civilization (Lucretius Poems)
Afterwards,When huts they had procured and pelts and fire,And when the woman, joined unto the man,Withdrew with him into one ...
Afterwards,When huts they had procured and pelts and fire,And when the woman, joined unto the man,Withdrew with him into one ...
Now when Dawn in robe of saffron was hasting from the streams ofOceanus, to bring light to mortals and immortals, ...
Of all the blessings which kind heaven bestows,From infancy to life's most lengthened close,The one, far greater than all earthly ...
July the month of summers primeAgain resumes her busy timeScythes tinkle in each grassy dellWhere solitude was wont to dwellAnd ...
"Whenever, amid bow'rs of myrtle,Love, summer-tressed and vernal-eyed,At morn or eve is seen to wander,A dark-haired girl is at his ...
Ah, what is love? It is a pretty thing,As sweet unto a shepherd as a king, And sweeter, too:For kings have ...
A NURSERY RHYMEHush-a-by, Baby! Your baby, Mamma,No one but pussy may go where you are;Soft-footed pussy alone may pass by,For, ...
Never yet could careless sleepOn Love's watchful eyelid creep;Never yet could gloomy nightDamp his eye's immortal light;Love is his own ...
I 'T is the middle of night on the Greenfield farm And the creatures are huddled to keep them from ...
A city clerk, but gently born and bred;His wife, an unknown artist's orphan child—One babe was theirs, a Margaret, three ...
Hence a while, severer Muses;Spare your slaves till drear October.Hence; for Alma Mater choosesNot to be for ever sober:But, like ...
How blest art thou, canst love the countrey, Wroth, Whether by choyce, or fate, or both!And, though so neere the ...
What fretting loads we mortals bear Through life, whose fading rainbows mockAnd Time, who drives a splendid pair Of steeds ...
Cherries of the night are riper Than the cherries pluckt at noon Gather to your fairy piper When he pipes ...
HE crawls to the cliff and plays on a brink Where every eye but his own would shrink; No music ...
A city clerk, but gently born and bred; His wife, an unknown artist's orphan child-- One babe was theirs, a ...
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, ...
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