Book I – Part 01 – Proem (Lucretius Poems)
Mother of Rome, delight of Gods and men,Dear Venus that beneath the gliding starsMakest to teem the many-voyaged mainAnd fruitful ...
Mother of Rome, delight of Gods and men,Dear Venus that beneath the gliding starsMakest to teem the many-voyaged mainAnd fruitful ...
'Twas Athens first, the glorious in name,That whilom gave to hapless sons of menThe sheaves of harvest, and re-ordered life,And ...
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 ...
Tartarus, out-belching from his mouth the surgeOf horrible heat- the which are nowhere, norIndeed can be: but in this life ...
But yet creation's neither crammed nor blockedAbout by body: there's in things a void-Which to have known will serve thee ...
Tartarus, out-belching from his mouth the surgeOf horrible heat- the which are nowhere, norIndeed can be: but in this life ...
But yet creation's neither crammed nor blockedAbout by body: there's in things a void-Which to have known will serve thee ...
'Tis sweet, when, down the mighty main, the windsRoll up its waste of waters, from the landTo watch another's labouring ...
'Tis sweet, when, down the mighty main, the windsRoll up its waste of waters, from the landTo watch another's labouring ...
But, now again to weave the tale begun,All nature, then, as self-sustained, consistsOf twain of things: of bodies and of ...
But, now again to weave the tale begun,All nature, then, as self-sustained, consistsOf twain of things: of bodies and of ...
O who can build with puissant breast a songWorthy the majesty of these great finds?Or who in words so strong ...
O who can build with puissant breast a songWorthy the majesty of these great finds?Or who in words so strong ...
I wander afield, thriving in sturdy thought,Through unpathed haunts of the Pierides,Trodden by step of none before. I joyTo come ...
I wander afield, thriving in sturdy thought,Through unpathed haunts of the Pierides,Trodden by step of none before. I joyTo come ...
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