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 come: that thou mayst able be to knowThat minds and the light souls of all that liveHave mortal birth ...
Now come: that thou mayst able be to knowThat minds and the light souls of all that liveHave mortal birth ...
Now come, and next hereafter apprehendWhat sorts, how vastly different in form,How varied in multitudinous shapes they are-These old beginnings ...
Now come: I will untangle for thy stepsNow by what motions the begetting bodiesOf the world-stuff beget the varied world,And ...
And on such grounds it is that those who heldThe stuff of things is fire, and out of fireAlone the ...
Now come: I will untangle for thy stepsNow by what motions the begetting bodiesOf the world-stuff beget the varied world,And ...
And on such grounds it is that those who heldThe stuff of things is fire, and out of fireAlone the ...
This craving 'tis that's Venus unto us:From this, engender all the lures of love,From this, O first hath into human ...
In these affairsWe crave that thou wilt passionately fleeThe one offence, and anxiously wilt shunThe error of presuming the clear ...
In these affairsWe crave that thou wilt passionately fleeThe one offence, and anxiously wilt shunThe error of presuming the clear ...
Now learn of what remains! More keenly hear!And for myself, my mind is not deceivedHow dark it is: But the ...
And first,Since body of earth and water, air's light breath,And fiery exhalations (of which fourThis sum of things is seen ...
Now learn of what remains! More keenly hear!And for myself, my mind is not deceivedHow dark it is: But the ...
And walking nowIn his own footprints, I do follow throughHis reasonings, and with pronouncements teachThe covenant whereby all things are ...
And walking nowIn his own footprints, I do follow throughHis reasonings, and with pronouncements teachThe covenant whereby all things are ...
But since I've taught already of what sortThe seeds of all things are, and how distinctIn divers forms they flit ...
But since I've taught already of what sortThe seeds of all things are, and how distinctIn divers forms they flit ...
This terror, then, this darkness of the mind,Not sunrise with its flaring spokes of light,Nor glittering arrows of morning can ...
Bodies, again,Are partly primal germs of things, and partlyUnions deriving from the primal germs.And those which are the primal germs ...
Bodies, again,Are partly primal germs of things, and partlyUnions deriving from the primal germs.And those which are the primal germs ...
But mortal manWas then far hardier in the old champaign,As well he should be, since a hardier earthHad him begotten; ...
'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 ...
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