Of The Nature Of Things: Book IV – Part 05 – The Passion Of Love (Lucretius Poems)
This craving 'tis that's Venus unto us:From this, engender all the lures of love,From this, O first hath into human ...
This craving 'tis that's Venus unto us:From this, engender all the lures of love,From this, O first hath into human ...
IMUSIC, on the air's edge, rides alone,Plumed like empastured Caesars of the skyWith a god's helmet; now, in the gold ...
I took a year out of my life and story-- A dead year, and said, "I will hew thee a tomb! 'All ...
The willows carried a slow sound,A sarabande the wind mowed on the mead.I could never rememberThat seething, steady leveling of ...
I wonder if the spell, the mystery,That like a haze about your silence clings,Moulding your void until we seem to ...
Father: On these occasions, the feelings surprise, Spontaneous as rain, and they compel Explicitness, embarrassed eyes-- Son: Father, you're not ...
What wonder this?—we ask the lympid well,O earth! of thee—and from thy solemn wombWhat yieldest thou?—is there life in the ...
(HORACE'S ODES, III, I)I hate the common, vulgar herd! Away they scamper when I "booh" 'em!But pretty girls and nice ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
Now, man of croziers, shadows called our names And then away, away, like whirling flames; And now fled by, mist-covered, ...
What wonder this?--we ask the lympid well, O earth! of thee--and from thy solemn womb What yieldest thou?--is there life ...
Through thick Arcadian woods a hunter went, Following the beasts upon a fresh spring day; But since his horn-tipped bow ...
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