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2001 I| out truth. But, if thou loiter loth~ Or veer, however little, 2002 V| living creatures.~ In that long-ago~ The wheel of the sun could 2003 V| own raucous songs -~ As long-lived generations of the crows~ 2004 III| fear,~ A third not more long-suffering than he should.~ And needs 2005 IV| and there stop up~ The longing, open-mouthed through limbs 2006 III| Whilst yet thou livest and lookest? - who in sleep~ Wastest 2007 IV| Now come, and why beyond a looking-glass~ An image may be seen, perceive. 2008 IV| intertwined paths~ Of the loose-textured tongue. And so, when smooth~ 2009 II| of the primal germs~ Are loosed their old arrangements, 2010 VI| quickly unbind all knots~ And loosen all the bonds of union there.~ ~ 2011 VI| itself~ And thaws its ice and looseneth the knots.~ There is, moreover, 2012 II| besides~ Shaking asunder and loosening all apart?~ It happens also, 2013 III| their eyes~ That man is lordly, that man gazed upon~ Who 2014 IV| shapes~ And images of people lorn of light,~ Which oft have 2015 VI| aery course, the while~ It loseth many bodies of stark cold~ 2016 III| cause,~ And rarefied by loss of blood from veins,~ Cannot 2017 I| season~ They're wont whatever losses to repair.~ For as the nature 2018 I| truth. But, if thou loiter loth~ Or veer, however little, 2019 IV| vain godheads and sacred lots.~ For sterile, are these 2020 II| overhead,~ Yet still to lounge with friends in the soft 2021 V| welcome then.~ And often, lounging with friends in the soft 2022 IV| those sick-at-heart with love-pining.~ Yea, in the very moment 2023 V| seest so marked with varied loveliness~ All the terrain which 2024 IV| Behind her back. But he, the lover, in tears~ Because shut 2025 IV| indeed,~ Though she thou lovest now be far away,~ Yet idol-images 2026 III| bones to earth,~ Like to the lowliest villein in the house.~ Add 2027 II| deigns look upward to those lucent realms.~ Then, spew not 2028 V| yet are borne along~ The lucid constellations; either because~ 2029 III| stand~ Ready hard by seems ludicrous enough -~ Immortals waiting 2030 I| my words~ Immortal charm. Lull to a timely rest~ O'er sea 2031 V| whirls,~ Withdrawing thus the luminiferous part~ Of her sphered mass 2032 VI| aroused flash~ Leaps onward, lumining with forky light~ All places 2033 IV| Swiftly the shining air and luminous~ Followeth in, which purges 2034 I| be~ As much of body as in lump of lead,~ The two should 2035 III| say that soul~ Can thus be lumped within the frames of those~ 2036 IV| one part of soul remained~ Lurking among the members, even 2037 IV| blubber-lipped is "all one luscious kiss" -~ A weary while it 2038 IV| their joints.~ So piecing lustre often burns the eyes,~ Because 2039 V| irk.~ And whilst so many lustrums of the sun~ Rolled on across 2040 II| craves~ No artifice nor luxury), if forsooth~ There be 2041 II| with silver, and to the lyre resound~ No fretted and 2042 II| despised;~ The swan's old lyric, and Apollo's hymns,~ Once 2043 II| tubed pipe excites their maddened minds~ In Phrygian measures; 2044 V| instructed men to found~ The magisterial office, and did frame~ Codes 2045 V| to prepare this world's magnificence,~ And that 'tis therefore 2046 IV| the Babylonian coverlets,~ Magnificently bright. Again, those males~ 2047 I| felt the chaplet round her maiden locks~ And fillets, fluttering 2048 VI| main-winds~ And under the four main-regions of the sky,~ So, too, are 2049 VI| climes diverse under the four main-winds~ And under the four main-regions 2050 I| the shores~ Of the Italic mainland. Here the waste~ Charybdis; 2051 III| Wastest thy life - time's major part, and snorest~ Even 2052 I| beneath the gliding stars~ Makest to teem the many-voyaged 2053 IV| roused violence of some malady,~ There the whole frame 2054 V| visages and limbs -~ The Man-woman - a thing betwixt the twain,~ 2055 V| they should take a step to manage aught~ For sake of us? Or 2056 IV| round,~ And certain of them many-angled too~ In many modes. For, 2057 V| with heat.~ Yet also when a many-branched tree,~ Beaten by winds, 2058 I| stars~ Makest to teem the many-voyaged main~ And fruitful lands - 2059 III| a prudent soul?~ And the mare's filly why not trained 2060 VI| moisture risen from the broad marine, -~ Whilst the winds bear 2061 VI| main~ Yields to the thirsty mariners timely help,~ Belching sweet 2062 III| nature? - And besides~ Thou markst that likewise with this 2063 I| lo, each thing is quicker marred than made;~ And so what' 2064 IV| sterile before~ In several marriage-beds, have yet thereafter~ Obtained 2065 III| and last~ To bones and marrow the sensation comes -~ Pleasure 2066 VI| When it hath gone into our marrow-bones,~ Sets us convulsively, 2067 IV| all that troop of words~ Marshalled against the senses is quite 2068 V| perceive how strange and marvellous~ This fact must strike the 2069 IV| This is why~ They boast of marvels in their story-tellings;~ 2070 III| conjured from his breast,~ The mask off-stripped, reality behind.~ 2071 I| its waves~ Down-toppled masonry and ponderous stone,~ Hurling 2072 VI| canst thou know their mighty masses, then~ Canst view their 2073 V| Then shall crash~ That massive form and fabric of the world~ 2074 III| The body's shattered by master-powers of eld,~ And fallen the 2075 IV| the twain~ Mastereth or is mastered. Happens too~ That sometimes 2076 IV| and neither of the twain~ Mastereth or is mastered. Happens 2077 II| the yards, the prow,~ The masts and swimming oars, so that 2078 II| Wherefore she owneth that maternal name,~ By old desert. What 2079 IV| thereafter~ Obtained the mates from whom they could conceive~ 2080 V| sweat~ Over the two-pronged mattock and to cleave~ The soil 2081 V| more many, and more big,~ Matured of those days in the fresh 2082 V| The coveted flower of fair maturity,~ Or to find aliment, or 2083 V| course beneath the lands.~ Matuta also at a fixed hour~ Spreadeth 2084 IV| and furnish at our word?~ Maugre the fact that in same place 2085 | maybe 2086 V| water-spring may wet~ The meadow-lands at times and flood the fields?~ ' 2087 V| and uplands, have their meadow-plats,~ Cisterns and runnels, 2088 VI| sensation most malign:~ Many meander miserably through ears;~ 2089 V| sun's courses,~ And the meanderings of the moon, lest we,~ Percase, 2090 II| maddened minds~ In Phrygian measures; they bear before them knives,~ 2091 VI| crops of grain~ Or other meat of men and feed of flocks.~ 2092 III| undertakes~ To alter the mind, or meditates to change~ Any another nature 2093 IV| spot~ Another's mind is meditating things~ All far unlike. 2094 V| thou ponderest~ In silent meditation, let me say~ 'Twas lightning 2095 II| barbaric robes, and gleam~ Of Meliboean purple, touched with dye~ 2096 V| musician-folk~ Gave birth to melic sounds of organing;~ And, 2097 V| oft they saw~ How objects mellowed, when subdued by warmth~ 2098 V| of notes,~ In modulating melodies, in running~ With puckered 2099 V| make,~ By measured song, melodious verse and give~ Delight 2100 V| how these same lumps,~ If melted by heat, could into any 2101 IV| when calves~ At birth drop membranes from their body's surface,~ 2102 I| illustrious scion of the Memmian house~ Neglect the civic 2103 V| chariots~ Whereinto clomb the men-at-arms. And next~ The Punic folk 2104 V| that 'tis rather they~ Who menace the world with inundations 2105 VI| she~ Hath got the whiff at menstruation-time.~ Once more, if thou delayest 2106 IV| wondrous...~ THE SENSES AND MENTAL PICTURES~ ~ Bodies that 2107 III| life~ In the members and mentality, if not~ Because one certain 2108 IV| voice -~ While I omit all mention of such things~ As hit the 2109 V| children and the womankind~ Mercy, of fathers, whilst with 2110 IV| And then the scurrying messengers of things~ Arrive our senses, 2111 II| from earth created, nor has met~ In combination, and, in 2112 VI| With thee my guide!~ GREAT METEOROLOGICAL~ PHENOMENA, ETC.~ ~ And 2113 II| sweeping so far and high,~ The meteors, midnight flambeaus of the 2114 VI| disease, 'twas such~ Mortal miasma in Cecropian lands~ Whilom 2115 IV| once they meet, uniteth in mid-air,~ Like gossamer or gold-leaf. 2116 VI| sole~ Of the Aegyptians. In mid-season heats~ Often and oft he 2117 VI| will unfold: for with no middling might~ Of devastation the 2118 III| footprints on our skin~ Of midges and the like. To that degree~ 2119 II| differ. Again, from earth's midsummer heats~ Unto the icy hoar-frosts 2120 V| thunderbolt~ Did hurl the mighty-minded hero off~ Those horses to 2121 II| bodies of wild beasts~ And mighty-winged birds. Thus Nature changes~ 2122 I| with the parts compressed,~ Milder, again when severed or dispersed -~ 2123 V| gropes in sleep~ After the milky nipples of the breasts,~ 2124 II| Gird thee to combat. For my mind-of-man~ Now seeks the nature of 2125 II| was before.~ Wherefore be mindful not to stain with colour~ 2126 VI| what of deadly bane~ The mines of gold exhale? O what a 2127 V| like manner to supply~ With ministering heat new light amain;~ Are 2128 V| created moon~ Might not miscarry and another be,~ In its 2129 I| uproar shrill and ominous moan. The winds,~ 'Tis clear, 2130 VI| quarter,~ Plague-stricken mob. All places would they crowd,~ 2131 V| vilest lees of brawling mobs~ Succumbed, whilst each 2132 IV| general seem in sleeps to mock~ And master the minds of 2133 II| Is but a drollery and a mocking sport,~ And of a truth man' 2134 IV| Returns a sound; and sometimes mocks the ear~ With a mere phantom 2135 IV| lisps";~ The mute girl's "modest"; and the garrulous,~ The 2136 II| and Apollo's hymns,~ Once modulated on the many chords,~ Would 2137 V| forth variety of notes,~ In modulating melodies, in running~ With 2138 I| by a spasm of mirth,~ Or moisten with salty tear-drops cheeks 2139 VI| bulk~ Of massed clouds. For moistures in these twain~ Are near 2140 V| Huge flabby jowls of mad Molossian hounds,~ Baring their hard 2141 IV| sound -~ There lurk yet many moments, which the reason~ Discovers 2142 IV| the same,~ Whatever its momentum, and one helm~ Whirls it 2143 V| tis the moon is seen each month to cross~ That very distance 2144 V| the moon glideth in her monthly course~ Athrough the rigid 2145 V| and gales. Ergo, if divers moods~ Compel the brutes, though 2146 V| of such mighty darkness, moored life~ In havens so serene, 2147 VI| hot the fountain). And, moreo'er,~ Some force constrains 2148 III| Impetuous rage with lion's breed morose,~ And cunning with foxes, 2149 V| above~ Over the verdant moss; and here and there~ Welled 2150 | mostly 2151 V| thither turned unto the mother-breasts.~ There earth would furnish 2152 II| valour to defend~ Their motherland, and ready to stand forth,~ 2153 IV| earth's aery skies,~ Which, moulded to innumerable shapes,~ 2154 V| But huddled in groves, and mountain-caves, and woods,~ And 'mongst 2155 V| yawning part thereof the mountain-chains~ And forests of the beasts 2156 I| in brush,~ Of beasts, the mountain-rangers, when but once~ They scent 2157 VI| horizon's blue~ Clouds like to mountain-ranges moving on,~ Or when about 2158 II| Thou'lt find the race of mountain-ranging wild~ Even thus to be, and 2159 II| pastures~ Can she supply for mountain-roaming beasts.~ Wherefore great 2160 IV| The mighty mountains and mountain-sundered rocks~ Going before and 2161 III| the breast."~ But ask the mourner what's the bitterness~ That 2162 V| borne along,~ For all his mouthings, to the shoals of doom.~ 2163 III| Since nature of mind is movable so much,~ Consist it must 2164 VI| dried~ By winds, and soft mud crusted o'er at dawn.~ ~ 2165 I| Nature all creates, and multiplies~ And fosters all, and whither 2166 II| all~ The fruitful lands of multitudes of worlds,~ To be at all 2167 VI| of fire,~ And heap them multitudinously there,~ And in the hollow 2168 VI| of fear~ Would Medicine mumble low, the while she saw~ 2169 V| In any regions of this mundane world;~ Indeed, the nature 2170 V| hurling headlong down~ To murkiest Tartarus, in scorn; for, 2171 VI| and far away~ Bulging with murkiness, down on the waves~ Falls 2172 V| And but the other day musician-folk~ Gave birth to melic sounds 2173 II| rise~ From non-sense by mutation, or because~ Brought forth 2174 II| circles, garlanding, the nape and throat:~ Now it is ruddy 2175 II| marjoram,~ And flower of nard, which to our nostrils breathes~ 2176 IV| particles have got~ Into the narrows of the apertures.~ Now easy 2177 VI| rags,~ Perish from very nastiness, with naught~ But skin upon 2178 III| seems that soul~ Hath both a natal and funeral hour.~ Besides 2179 IV| more rough~ The wind-pipe - naturally enough, methinks,~ When, 2180 II| above~ The primal germs of nauseating brine,~ Since cling the 2181 V| fury-winds at sea~ Sweepeth a navy's admiral down the main~ 2182 VI| that from thence he may~ Near-by decide upon the stroke of 2183 II| built of unions small~ And nearest, as it were, unto the powers~ 2184 IV| delicate"~ Is she who's nearly dead of coughing-fit;~ The 2185 VI| By now the shepherds and neatherds all,~ Yea, even the sturdy 2186 VI| down-drooping of their delicate necks,~ Fall headlong into earth, 2187 II| nostrils breathes~ Odour of nectar, first of all behooves~ 2188 VI| verily as though~ 'Twere nectar-steeped and shed ambrosia;~ Than 2189 V| perennially the fluids well.~ Needeth no words - the mighty flux 2190 II| in riches of their own,~ Needing not us, they are not touched 2191 IV| and call; their duties~ Neglected languish and their honest 2192 IV| filthy and the fetid's "negligee";~ The cat-eyed she's "a 2193 V| sides from blows.~ Again the neighing of the horse, is that~ Not 2194 V| now that mighty maw~ Of Nemeaean Lion, or what the Boar~ 2195 VI| restore the same with the Neptunian flood,~ Nay, though all 2196 VI| were shoved~ By fist and nether thrust of arm, and lengthened~ 2197 IV| When tangled in the very nets, and burst~ The stoutly-knotted 2198 IV| In slumber - that haply nevermore may we~ Suppose that souls 2199 II| large heat,~ And sows the new-ploughed intervales with light:~ 2200 V| Abounding in soft down. Earth's newness then~ Would rouse no dour 2201 II| tilling of the fields,~ So niggardly they grudge our harvestings,~ 2202 IV| draws~ Together to a cone's nigh-viewless point.~ To sailors on the 2203 VI| the pungent stench of the night-lamp,~ Extinguished but a moment 2204 IV| drifts along the sky~ In the night-time, then seem to glide along~ 2205 V| constellations evermore,~ And the night-wandering fireballs of the sky,~ And 2206 VI| thou not, when near the nightly lamps~ Thou bringest a flaxen 2207 II| as song~ Which, waked by nimble fingers, on the strings~ 2208 IV| Forsooth as ever of such nimbleness,~ Comes on and penetrates 2209 IV| large degrees~ This air is nimbler, nicer, and more strong.~ 2210 | nine 2211 V| horns,~ And with a threat'ning forehead jam the sod;~ And 2212 VI| or at the most~ On the ninth flaming of his flambeau, 2213 V| in sleep~ After the milky nipples of the breasts,~ An infant 2214 III| briefer time in death's No-more~ Than he who perished months 2215 VI| This kind of death each nobler soul would meet.~ The funerals, 2216 II| bloody mirth and by their nodding shake~ The terrorizing crests 2217 V| heaven~ Where the year's node renders the shades of night~ 2218 V| men learned~ Their first nomenclature, is foolery.~ For why could 2219 VI| seasons of the year~ Are nominated "cross-seas." - And no marvel~ 2220 I| both through centre and non-centre yield~ Alike to weights 2221 II| sensations all~ Can out of non-sensations be begot.~ ~ But if one 2222 II| sense can so far rise~ From non-sense by mutation, or because~ 2223 V| refresh their bodies for the nonce;~ And the wild berries of 2224 II| But if we see what raving nonsense this,~ And that a man may 2225 VI| when the sudden flaws~ Of northwest wind through the dense forest 2226 I| As dogs full oft with noses on the ground,~ Find out 2227 IV| knows~ What 'tis to know and not-to-know in turn,~ And what created 2228 IV| When this~ Thou well hast noted, thou canst render count~ 2229 V| to beam, -~ Memmius, such notions to concoct and pile,~ Is 2230 I| From yielding faith to that notorious talk:~ That all things inward 2231 I| since food~ Augments and nourishes the human frame,~ 'Tis thine 2232 IV| For, lo, the ulcer just by nourishing~ Grows to more life with 2233 II| frame~ Follows upon each novelty of forms.~ Wherefore, it 2234 V| left their eggs behind;~ As now-a-days in summer tree-crickets~ 2235 V| seem~ So far unworthy of numbering with the gods,~ That well 2236 V| snows and brings again~ The numbing cold. And Winter follows 2237 V| treated to the humouring nurse's~ Dear, broken chatter; 2238 V| hearts. Mid acorn-laden oaks~ Would they refresh their 2239 VI| have come,~ Forgetting to oar with wings, they furl their 2240 V| So better far in quiet to obey,~ Than to desire chief mastery 2241 III| the body scattered, but obeys -~ Moved by the nod and 2242 II| Whatever the weight, it can't obliquely go,~ Down on its headlong 2243 III| reclined~ On the smooth oblong of an icy slab,~ Grow stiff 2244 V| why, ere Theban war~ And obsequies of Troy, have other bards~ 2245 VI| they tower.~ For make thine observations at a time~ When winds shall 2246 IV| himself~ For his fatuity, observing how~ He had assigned to 2247 I| all things kind by kind obtain~ Fixed bounds of growing 2248 II| insensate for all time;~ But, by obtaining germs of many things,~ In 2249 IV| distant angle is perceived obtuse,~ Or rather it is not perceived 2250 IV| out our hands escape the obvious things~ And injure primal 2251 IV| strange state and new~ May be occasioned, and by what the soul~ Can 2252 V| eclipses and the moon's~ Far occultations rightly thou mayst deem~ 2253 IV| And doth an image unto us occur,~ Directly we desire - if 2254 I| moisture in,~ Nor how by heat off-driven. Thus we know,~ That moisture 2255 III| from his breast,~ The mask off-stripped, reality behind.~ And greed, 2256 IV| in either case they are off-thrown~ From off the surface. So 2257 V| Stymphalian fens~ So dreadfully offend us, or the Steeds~ Of Thracian 2258 III| waned away,~ Of own accord offered his head to death.~ Even 2259 II| which, chief, are most burnt offerings.~ ~ Thus must they be of 2260 II| darest nowhere make a stop.~ Oho, I'll follow thee until 2261 VI| draws back~ For marjoram oil, and every unguent fears~ 2262 VI| heavy pitch~ With the light oil-of-olive. And purple dye~ Of shell-fish 2263 VI| by heat) it softens.~ The oleaster-tree as much delights~ The bearded 2264 V| The silvery-green belt of olive-trees,~ Marking the plotted landscape; 2265 VI| up-reared~ Unto the sky - lean ominously, careening~ Into the same 2266 IV| sound or voice -~ While I omit all mention of such things~ 2267 III| in life one pictures to oneself~ His body dead by beasts 2268 IV| as ever 'thas filled and oped with light~ The pathways 2269 VI| Their souls through all the openings of their frame.~ ~ Further, 2270 I| full the Sum -~ Received opinion, wholly false forsooth.~ 2271 IV| these~ Deceives through mere opinions of the mind,~ Which we do 2272 III| friend, will serve thee opportune in else.~ This also shows 2273 IV| left arm by the aid of art~ Opposed the shielding targe. And, 2274 VI| to see~ How many things oppressive be and foul~ To man, and 2275 V| that they themselves,~ The opulent, might pass a quiet life -~ 2276 V| I take a step to utter~ Oracles holier and soundlier based~ 2277 VI| unwind Etrurian scrolls oracular,~ Inquiring tokens of occult 2278 V| and divides in twain~ His orbit all unequally, and adds,~ 2279 IV| the size of any inward organ -~ What of their sphered 2280 V| birth to melic sounds of organing;~ And, then, this nature, 2281 III| s every winding way~ And orifice? And so by many means~ 2282 V| this,~ If there had been no origin-in-birth~ Of lands and sky, and they 2283 V| the dappled birds,~ Hawks, ospreys, sea-gulls, searching food 2284 III| Lack of Light~ ~ Tartarus, out-belching from his mouth the surge~ 2285 VI| from the open sea,~ And to out-blow abroad, and to up-bear~ 2286 VI| suddenly angered flame~ Out-blows abroad from vasty furnaces~ 2287 VI| Twain cities which such out-break of wild air~ And earth's 2288 VI| attacks the very eyes;~ Out-breaks the sacred fire, and, crawling 2289 VI| Such vast tornado-fires out-breathe at times,~ I will unfold: 2290 VI| stenches, too,~ Scaptensula out-breathes from down below,~ When men 2291 VI| their lashed force~ Aroused out-bursts abroad, and then and there,~ 2292 II| runs the story, whilom did out-drown~ That infant cry of Zeus, 2293 III| moved from place,~ The soul out-filtering even through the frame,~ 2294 V| engendered; and at times out-flares~ The scorching heat of flame, 2295 V| from here hath opened and out-gushed,~ And shot its light abroad; 2296 VI| above~ And makes the rains out-pour. Besides when, too,~ The 2297 V| plainings, such as pipe out-pours,~ Beaten by finger-tips 2298 IV| straightaway~ Those films of things out-standing in the light,~ Provoking 2299 VI| Thus, this telluric earth~ Out-streams with all these dread effluvia~ 2300 V| vain,~ Without all end or outcome, and give up~ Its empty 2301 III| gird: since ever the old~ Outcrowded by the new gives way, and 2302 II| all be marked~ By equal outline and by shape the same.~ ~ 2303 IV| appearance and to turn~ Into new outlines of all sorts of forms;~ 2304 V| themselves themselves would then outpour~ The poison; now, with nicer 2305 VI| gods could be by this~ So outraged as in wrath to thirst to 2306 VI| that's wont to kill a man outright~ By fetid odour of its very 2307 IV| tell;~ Especially, since on outsides of things~ Are bodies many 2308 V| of the world can still~ Outstand this strain of ever-roused 2309 I| unseen quality,~ Lest some outstanding alien element~ Confuse and 2310 IV| Hath once leapt forth, outstarting into many -~ As oft a spark 2311 VI| clouds and racks on racks outstream~ In piled layers and are 2312 II| must then, beyond a doubt,~ Outstrip in speed, and be more swiftly 2313 IV| creatures which take food~ Are outwardly unlike, and outer cut~ And 2314 III| forth and carried in a mass~ Outwards by mouth, where they are 2315 VI| hot baths,~ When thou art over-full, how readily~ From stool 2316 VI| beams,~ Wrenched forward, over-hang, ready to go.~ Yet dread 2317 IV| and how far away.~ ~ Nor over-marvellous must this be deemed~ In 2318 VI| gods: the woe at hand~ Did over-master. Nor in the city then~ Remained 2319 V| But vainly - since their over-mastered power~ Would soon give way, 2320 VI| own power and bonds -~ So over-masteringly its power flows down.~ In 2321 VI| This fountain men be-wonder over-much,~ And think that suddenly 2322 V| mark all regions which are overarched~ By the prodigious reaches 2323 II| Mingles undaunted, nor is overawed~ By gleam of gold nor by 2324 V| lost entire, and earth is overcast~ Where'er the thunderheads 2325 VI| summer, Nile~ Waxeth and overfloweth the champaign,~ Unique in 2326 IV| Do thou, in thy turn, overlook the same,~ And thus allow 2327 IV| of thine own good,~ And overlookest first all blemishes~ Of 2328 II| thumping to undo a thing~ And overmaster by infesting blows.~ Thus, 2329 V| could scarce subdue~ An overmastered multitude to choose~ To 2330 VI| so much more~ Agile and overpowering is this force.~ ~ Now in 2331 III| the ties of comradry~ And oversets all reverence and faith,~ 2332 V| Who by their reasonings do overshake~ The ramparts of the universe 2333 II| wont~ At such an hour to overspread and clothe~ The whole with 2334 IV| members then,~ A kind of overthrow; for then confounded~ Are 2335 V| goes the story - when it overwhelmed~ The lives of men with billows; 2336 V| dissolution: now~ 'Tis plenty overwhelms. Unwary, they~ Oft for themselves 2337 V| mastery of affairs~ And ownership of empires. Be it so;~ And 2338 II| their kind;~ Wherefore she owneth that maternal name,~ By 2339 I| all spreads everywhere,~ Owning no confines. Since whether 2340 III| divides, indeed~ Admits it owns no everlasting nature.~ 2341 II| toiling arms.~ We break the ox, and wear away the strength~ 2342 V| far she fails to keep the pace~ With starry signs above; 2343 V| Already men had, under treaty pacts,~ Confederates and allies, 2344 IV| they lift their dress~ By pail or public jordan and then 2345 IV| eye, which by contagion paint~ All things with sallowness. 2346 III| may roam in Acheron.~ Thus painters and the elder race of bards~ 2347 V| times of the year~ Were painting the green of the grass around 2348 V| yoked chariot;~ And yoked pairs abreast came earlier~ Than 2349 II| circumstance abashed,~ Religion pales and flees thy mind; O then~ 2350 III| man's members: sweats and pallors spread~ Over the body, and 2351 IV| nauseous absinth, or the panacea,~ Strong southernwood, or 2352 II| And the altar near exhales Panchaean scent;~ Or hold as of like 2353 VI| of foam,~ At last on all Pandion's folk it swooped;~ Whereat 2354 III| Released from every harrying pang. But we,~ We have bewept 2355 V| horsemen calm~ Their horses, panic-breasted at the roar,~ And rein them 2356 V| dure the wounds of war and panic-strike~ The mighty troops of Mars. 2357 V| the sky~ And wearily hath panted forth his fires,~ Shivered 2358 IV| then gnawed~ By fangs of panther or of lion fierce.~ Many 2359 V| to thrust.~ But whelps of panthers and the lion's cubs~ With 2360 II| forward break as soon~ As pants their mind to do? For it 2361 VI| tearing sound of sheets~ Of paper - even this kind of noise 2362 VI| hanging cloth and flying paper-sheets.~ For sometimes, too, it 2363 IV| Assemblies of the citizens, parades,~ Banquets, and battles, 2364 VI| world.~ EXTRAORDINARY AND PARADOXICAL~ TELLURIC PHENOMENA~ ~ In 2365 IV| to end~ On equal columns, parallel and big,~ Contracts by stages 2366 I| Since 'tis itself still parcel of another,~ A first and 2367 V| sun with baneful heats~ Parches, or sudden rains or chilling 2368 IV| quenches like a fire, that parching heat~ No longer now can 2369 III| tallies that the mind no less~ Partaker is of death; for pain and 2370 IV| fathers. But whom seest to be~ Partakers of each shape, one equal 2371 V| Of the winged ones and parti-coloured birds,~ Hatched out in spring-time, 2372 IV| wont~ To feel each private particle of wind~ Or of that cold, 2373 II| without halt,~ In meetings, partings, harried up and down.~ From 2374 III| dowered conjointly with a partner-life;~ No energy of body or mind, 2375 V| of earth~ With earliest parturition had decreed~ To raise in 2376 V| the main~ The rich man's party. Yet were man to steer~ 2377 V| whirl around, seeking a passage out,~ And everywhere make 2378 VI| possession of~ The iron's open passage-ways, thereafter~ Cometh the 2379 V| weak and weary, whilst she passeth through~ Regions unfriendly 2380 IV| We crave that thou wilt passionately flee~ The one offence, and 2381 V| turn the countryside to pasture-lands,~ Or slay the wild and thrive 2382 IV| generation rises forth~ From seed paternal, and from mother's body~ 2383 IV| And rich attire in the patrician seats.~ And ever the more 2384 II| of sheep, and thus they patter on,~ Unfailingly each to 2385 II| with hands~ After a fixed pattern of one other,~ They needs 2386 I| But state of slavery, pauperhood, and wealth,~ Freedom, and 2387 IV| between the stones along the pave,~ Offers a vision downward 2388 III| he also, he -~ Who whilom paved a highway down the sea,~ 2389 VI| house up-bounds, when a paving-block~ Gives either iron rim of 2390 V| as acorn-nuts, choice pears,~ Or the wild berries of 2391 V| threaten, with infuriate lips peeled back,~ In sounds far other 2392 IV| Yields through itself an open peering-place,~ And lets us see so many 2393 I| thou hast willed to be~ Peerless in every grace at every 2394 III| if once compacted as a pellet:~ When death's unvexed repose 2395 VI| did befall,~ And once in Peloponnesian Aegium,~ Twain cities which 2396 IV| from the eyes~ As soon as penetrating, so that thus~ They cannot 2397 I| from within be torn~ By penetration, nor be overthrown~ By any 2398 III| fears it, perhaps, to stay,~ Pent in a crumbled body? Or lest 2399 | per 2400 VI| in air~ Whatever seeds it peradventure have~ Of its own fiery exhalations.~ 2401 IV| do see~ (Except that it perceives more subtle films)~ The 2402 V| endure~ Inviolable.~ Again, perceivest not~ How stones are also 2403 V| waters overflow~ And that perennially the fluids well.~ Needeth 2404 IV| frame -~ And this is easy of performance, since~ The soul is close 2405 III| wine,~ Or when an unguent's perfume delicate~ Into the winds 2406 IV| wretched self with vile perfumes;~ Whom even her handmaids 2407 I| Involved in flames old Pergama, by a birth~ At midnight 2408 V| decree.~ ORIGINS AND SAVAGE PERIOD~ OF MANKIND~ ~ But mortal 2409 V| foremost flashed forth,~ Perisheth one by one. Nor otherwise~ 2410 III| forth, without its nature~ Perishing likewise: so, not easy ' 2411 V| fire~ Be not a great, may permeate the air~ With the fierce 2412 I| them as seeds for things,~ Permitteth naught of rupture or decrease.~ ~ 2413 I| Room and a time for flight, permitting them~ To be from off the 2414 IV| they be~ Engendered, and perpetually flow off~ From things and 2415 V| status after other, nor aught persists~ Forever like itself. All 2416 VI| into the same~ Descend in person, and that from thence he 2417 II| Delight, the guide of life,~ Persuades mortality and leads it on,~ 2418 III| through,~ But all things be perturbed to that degree~ That room 2419 VI| Then fearfully a quake~ Pervades the lands, and 'long the 2420 I| embraced with reasoning perverse~ For centre none can be 2421 V| could Cretan Bull, or Hydra, pest~ Of Lerna, fenced with vipers 2422 V| horses of the Sun~ Snatched Phaethon headlong from his skiey 2423 I| in order lie~ In a packed phalanx, filling to the full~ The 2424 V| life~ Which now is called philosophy, and who~ By cunning craft, 2425 II| away: the purple there,~ Phoenician red, most brilliant of all 2426 VI| of silver and gold,~ With pick-axe probing round the hidden 2427 II| happens when the gaudy linen's picked~ Shred after shred away: 2428 IV| recurrent discharge~ Expelled, a picture from the mirrors' plane.~ 2429 IV| disordering their joints.~ So piecing lustre often burns the eyes,~ 2430 II| law we see how earth is pied~ With shells and conchs, 2431 IV| gazelle";~ The pudgy and the pigmy is "piquant,~ One of the 2432 III| eyes, and every sense which pilots life;~ And just as hand, 2433 VI| supreme hour~ At last the pinched nostrils, nose's tip~ A 2434 VI| sepulture, with which~ That pious folk had evermore been wont~ 2435 IV| pudgy and the pigmy is "piquant,~ One of the Graces sure"; 2436 I| regions, even~ Out of the pit below, from forth the vast,~ 2437 V| spoils.~ (For hunting by pit-fall and by fire arose~ Before 2438 VI| ashes, and rolls a smoke of pitchy murk~ And heaveth the while 2439 VI| O awfullest of all,~ O pitiable most was this, was this:~ 2440 III| beasts and vultures torn,~ He pities his state, dividing not 2441 IV| each other and advise~ To placate Venus, since their friends 2442 II| crafty enticements of the placid deep:~ Exactly thus, if 2443 VI| thronging from every quarter,~ Plague-stricken mob. All places would they 2444 II| fixed point - on one side plagued by flames~ And on the other 2445 VI| even because thyself~ Thou plaguest with the notion that the 2446 V| Tis thine to know from plainest facts: when first~ Huge 2447 V| bit~ They learned sweet plainings, such as pipe out-pours,~ 2448 IV| illumination - if we crave~ With plainness to exhibit facts. And first,~ 2449 V| mother's womb,~ And with a plaintive wail he fills the place, -~ 2450 V| To shave the beams and planks, besides to bore~ And punch 2451 III| life.~ For soon as ever thy planning thought that sprang~ From 2452 I| they concoct to rout thy plans of life,~ And trouble all 2453 II| And, again,~ The gloomy planter of the withered vine~ Rails 2454 IV| Exactly as whoso his plaster-mask~ Should dash, before 'twere 2455 II| to hold the high~ Serene plateaus, well fortressed by the 2456 III| the oaken rack,~ The iron plates, bitumen, and the torch.~ 2457 IV| blood,~ And make the high platforms odorous with burnt gifts,~ 2458 IV| Which the pipe, beat by players' finger-tips,~ Pours out; 2459 IV| same.~ The lawyers seem to plead and cite decrees,~ Commanders 2460 VI| sense of honour and the pleading voice~ Of weary watchers, 2461 VI| that too dear desire~ Of pleasant waters. Ah, everywhere along~ 2462 II| whatsoever~ Can touch the senses pleasingly are made~ Of smooth and 2463 IV| Venus; rather takes~ Those pleasures which are free of penalties.~ 2464 V| some mean garment of the Plebs.~ So man in vain futilities 2465 I| daedal Earth~ Foster and plenish with her ancient food,~ 2466 I| large well-springs of my plenished breast~ That much I dread 2467 II| things are mortal all -~ The pliant mortal, with a body soft;~ 2468 II| but rather,~ Inveterately plied by motions mixed,~ Some, 2469 III| fore-fearing conscience, plies its goads~ And burns beneath 2470 II| simple comfort in a narrow plot,~ Since, man for man, the 2471 V| olive-trees,~ Marking the plotted landscape; even as now~ 2472 V| twain by pressing on the plough.~ ~ Unless, by the ploughshare 2473 II| labour. Now to-day~ The aged ploughman, shaking of his head,~ Sighs 2474 IV| building,~ If the first plumb-line be askew, and if~ The square 2475 VI| Ever and ever. Some would plunge those limbs~ On fire with 2476 VI| the whirl suddenly then~ Plunges its whole self into the 2477 VI| rapidly along~ Its billows and plunging boulders. For clear fact~ 2478 V| delights~ Of finer life, poems, pictures, chiselled shapes~ 2479 VI| recovers then her seats of poise.~ Thus, this is why whole 2480 II| That the great earth hangs poised and cannot lie~ Resting 2481 I| themselves~ In many ways poisons and foes to each,~ Wherefore 2482 VI| because~ He marked how it polluted with foul taste~ Whate'er 2483 II| if we note how all this pomp at last~ Is but a drollery 2484 I| These points, if thou wilt ponder,~ Then, with but paltry 2485 IV| forthwith;~ And his lament, long pondered, then would fall~ Down at 2486 V| Concerning these affairs thou ponderest~ In silent meditation, let 2487 III| races, driving his Gallic ponies along,~ Down to his villa, 2488 VI| Or in what else to differ Pontic clime~ From Gades' and from 2489 V| one unaltered urge, the Pontus proves -~ That sea which 2490 II| fragments of the rended poop,~ Giving a lesson to mortality~ 2491 IV| port seem, as with broken poops,~ To lean upon the water, 2492 III| can blow~ High heaps of poppy-seed away for thee~ Downward 2493 II| not cohere:~ To suck the poppy-seeds from palm of hand~ Is quite 2494 V| afar~ Distributed o'er populous domains,~ Now soothe the 2495 III| through the body's every pore.~ Yet as a rule, almost 2496 II| frame;~ The hollow with a porous-all must be~ Disjoined from 2497 IV| of the sea,~ Vessels in port seem, as with broken poops,~ 2498 III| selves that see,~ No open portals undertake the toil.~ Besides, 2499 VI| Or what the thunderstroke portends of ill~ From out high heaven. 2500 II| for then wouldest view~ Portents begot about thee every side:~