Of The Nature Of Things: Book III – Part 02 – Nature And Composition Of The Mind (Lucretius Poems)
First, then, I say, the mind which oft we callThe intellect, wherein is seated life'sCounsel and regimen, is part no ...
First, then, I say, the mind which oft we callThe intellect, wherein is seated life'sCounsel and regimen, is part no ...
First, then, I say, the mind which oft we callThe intellect, wherein is seated life'sCounsel and regimen, is part no ...
IVictors, living, with laureled brow,And you that sleep beneath the sward!Your song was poured from cannon throats:It rang in deep-tongued ...
"LOVE is the secret of the world," he said;"The cup we drain and still desire to drink.The loadstone hungers for ...
There's an art in our profession, Which cannot be wholly learned From all books in our possession, Though their leaves be deftly turned Till ...
YES ,--whilst my sight is yet allow'd to restOn those dear features, (which it calms my breastTo look upon, and, ...
What, wide awake, sweet stranger, wide awake?And laughing coyly at an English sun,And blessing him with smiles for having thaw'dThine ...
THE ministering spirits from aboveDescend with energy creative fraught,They breathe on nature with the breath of love,And lo! she wakens ...
I have often thought there's a power Unknown to science or art, That opens and closes the portals That lead to the human ...
To W. S. M.Look at her-there she sits upon her throneAs ladylike and quiet as a nun!But if you cross ...
A PERSIAN TALE.The fable of the following little tale is taken from an ingenious and justly admired AuthorYe blooming Maids ...
Leonardo imagined the first one.The next was a pole lathe with a drive cord,illustrated in Plumier's L'art de tourner en ...
I saw a ship of material build(Her standards set, her brave apparel on)Directed as by madness mereAgainst a solid iceberg ...
Oh! not the unreasoning God for me,Foreseeing, knowing allThat in the wondrous world he madeHis creatures should befall.Created them with ...
Soul speaks to soul, eye speaks to eye, And mind by mind is read; The heart bounds in sweet ecstasy Whene'er a light ...
Who has not seen the inert mind, Bowed down and sore oppressed, Start into life, and vigor find At touch of interest Some sympathetic ...
Little lion faceI stopped to pickamong the mass of thicksucculent blooms, the twicestreaked flanges of your silksunwheel relaxed in widedilation, ...
Little lion faceI stopped to pickamong the mass of thicksucculent blooms, the twicestreaked flanges of your silksunwheel relaxed in widedilation, ...
The joy is great of him who straysIn shady woods on summer days,With eyes alert and muscles steady,His longbow strung, ...
The winter rose I sawOn its thin stem of glassShattered upon the grass,Slain by its secret flawRed tarnished into greyRecalls ...
FATHER, I scarcely dare to pray, So clear I see, now it is done,That I have wasted half my day, And left ...
ADVICE; OR THE 'SQUIRE AND THE PRIEST.A wealthy Lord of far-extended landHad all that pleased him placed at his command;Widow'd ...
Ogrin the Hermit in old age set forth This tale to them that sought him in the extreme Ancient grey ...
In the garden yonder of yews and death,There sojournethA man who toils, and has toiled for aye.Digging the dried-up ground ...
It takes great strength to train To modern service your ancestral brain; To lift the weight ...
All winter long you listened for the boom Of distant cannon wheeled into their place. Sometimes outside beneath a bombers' ...
I did not have this face I have today,So calm, so sad, so thin,Nor these empty eyes,Nor these bitter lips.I ...
You know what it is to be born alone, Baby tortoise! The first day to heave your feet little by ...
He perches in the slime, inert, Bedaubed with iridescent dirt. The oil upon the puddles dries To colours like a ...
The call, the words coming like a fountain living waters of Your love flowing, raining pouring down on me calling ...
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