Book III – Part 01 – Proem (Lucretius Poems)
O thou who first uplifted in such darkSo clear a torch aloft, who first shed lightUpon the profitable ends of ...
O thou who first uplifted in such darkSo clear a torch aloft, who first shed lightUpon the profitable ends of ...
She has slid down the channels Of history's annals Disguised as the child of a king, But that is a glib And iniquitous fib, For ...
I've got a little yaller dog, a wuthless kind of chap,Who jest ain't good fer nothin' but ter eat and ...
The laying of the corner-stone of The Mother Church. Laus Deo, it is done! Rolled away from loving heart Is a stone. Lifted higher, ...
At Norton Green the tower stands well off roadAnd is a squareness meaning many things;Nearest to us, the makers had ...
4 is squarely masculineand 3 round and feminine9 is distant and out-of-sightof 6 more of the light7 stands apartagainst its ...
In bloom gemm'd depths, where Sylvan branches meetAbove dim paths, that thread a still retreat;Where light on tip-toe shy, steals ...
You say there's a Being all-loving, Whose nature is justice and pity; Could you say where you ...
Once on a time a lad I knew-- His sister called him Bubby; His cheeks were red, his eyes were ...
A rose in my garden, the sweetest and fairest,Was hanging her head through the long golden hours;And early one morning ...
Mr. Pericles, M.P., In four-sixty-nine B.C.,Outed Cimon at a general election; Premier Cimon, thuswise ex-ed, Was quite naturally vexed,And ...
Gentle brother, answer truly, Tell what you be.But, I pray, tax not unduly Your sagacitee.Is your brand u-ni-fi-cation -Is't, or ...
Let me look always forward. Never back.Was I not formed for progress? OtherwiseWith onward pointing feet and searching eyesWould God ...
I Frindsbury, Kent, 1786 Bang! Bang! Tap! Tap-a-tap! Rap! All through the lead and silver Winter days, All through the ...
I This is the sorrowful story Told when the twilight fails And the monkeys walk together Holding their neighbours' tails: ...
1911 When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster, who will often ...
When you're up against a trouble, Meet it squarely, face to face; Lift your chin and set your shoulders, Plant ...
A pure, honesty, authentic human encounter looking at each other squarely in the eye Asking for his daily bread for ...
Out of the mud two strangers came And caught me splitting wood in the yard, And one of them put ...
They don't want to be your hedge, Your barrier, your living wall, the no-go Go-between between your property And the ...
Oh ye whose hearts are resonant, and ring to War's romance, Hear ye the story of a boy, a peasant ...
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