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 ...
_"Lord, I believe: help Thou mine unbelief."_We must believe--Being from birth endowed with love and trust--Born unto loving;--and how simply ...
Ere pales in Heaven the morning star, A bird, the loneliest of its kind,Hears Dawn's faint footfall from afar While all its ...
Let such pure hate still underpropOur love, that we may beEach other's conscience,And have our sympathyMainly from thence.We'll one another ...
In trance and dream of old, God's prophet sawThe casting down of thrones. Thou, watching loneThe hot Sardinian coast-line, hazy-hilled,Where, ...
Palm branch of Palestine, oh tell me, In that far distant home-land fair,Wast rooted in the mountain gravel Or sprung from some ...
Just to be good-- This is enough--enough! O we who find sin's billows wild and rough, Do we not feel how more than ...
WAS this His coming! I had hoped to seeA scene of wondrous glory, as was toldOf some great God who ...
Clouds--ye eternal wanderers in hunting grounds of air,High o'er the verdant Steppes, wide through the blue of heaven--Coursing fraternal,--say, must ...
The fields and lanes show fresh and fain Pranked in the jewels of the rain; And the scent that breathes ...
Swept from his fleet upon that fatal night When great Poseidon's sudden-veering wrath Scattered the happy homeward-floating Greeks Like foam-flakes ...
Who murmurs, hither, hither: whoWhere nought is audible so fills the ear?Where nought is visible can make appearA veil with ...
Like a flood river whirled at rocky banks,An army issues out of wilderness,With battle plucking round its ragged flanks;Obstruction in ...
This wearisome and this distressing sleep That we call life, O how dost thou support, My Pepoli? With what hopes ...
18th November 1852 "VICTORY!" So once more the cry must ...
Who can bring healing to her heart's despair, Her whole rich sum of happiness lies there! ~ CROLY. Pale is ...
Thou tranquil night, and thou, O gentle ray Of the declining moon; and thou, that o'er The rock appearest, 'mid ...
I Midwinter spring is its own season Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown, Suspended in time, between pole and tropic. When ...
Was this His coming! I had hoped to see A scene of wondrous glory, as was told Of some great ...
"Friends, Romans, Countrymen, and Lovers." Let such pure hate still underprop Our love, that we may be Each other's conscience, ...
1 Ye heavenly spirits, whose ashy cinders lie Under deep ruins, with huge walls opprest, But not your praise, the ...
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