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2501 IV| In the same way as we. A portico,~ Albeit it stands well 2502 IV| part,~ Beating on solid porticoes, tossed back~ Returns a 2503 V| cultivate an earth~ All portioned out and boundaried; already,~ 2504 V| hath yet no power~ There to postpone the Terminals of Fate,~ 2505 IV| still seem to whirl and posts to reel,~ Until they now 2506 I| clashings, motions, order, posture, shapes~ Produce the fire 2507 IV| four-foot breeds,~ Because so postured, with the breasts beneath~ 2508 V| Or some other power~ Can pound upon them till they perish 2509 VI| They're set a-going by poundings from elsewhere,~ Nor by 2510 III| human life~ Unto its deeps, pouring o'er all that is~ The black 2511 VI| And sudden stress~ And poverty to many an awful act~ Impelled; 2512 II| things,~ Nor sound, since pow'rless they to send forth 2513 V| of feet, exhale abroad~ A powdery haze and flying clouds of 2514 VI| sides,~ They're massed and powerfully pressed. Again,~ Perchance, 2515 V| high altars, and led to practices~ Of solemn rites in season - 2516 II| times of old,~ Often he praises the fortunes of his sire,~ 2517 II| his sire,~ And crackles, prating, how the ancient race,~ 2518 V| gods with vows,~ And beg in prayer, a-tremble, lulled winds~ 2519 V| So that they knew and pre-conceived with mind~ Just what they 2520 IV| wills;~ And what it there pre-visioneth depends~ On what that image 2521 III| us~ Suppliest a father's precepts; and from out~ Those scriven 2522 V| That trees were wont with precious stones to flower,~ Or that 2523 III| that same time. But death precludeth this,~ Forbidding life to 2524 IV| Directly we desire - if heart prefer~ The sea, the land, or after 2525 IV| mind and body of thy much preferred,~ Desirable dame. For so 2526 II| The grain-crop Ceres, and prefers to abuse~ The name of Bacchus 2527 IV| own ends,~ To keep from pregnancy and lying in,~ And all the 2528 VI| settled well for us~ As premises prepared, for what remains~ ' 2529 IV| the fine,~ Will strain in preparation, otherwise~ Unable sharply 2530 V| Wherefore, moon,~ Since she presents bright look and clear-cut 2531 I| parts of fire did still preserve~ But fire's own nature, 2532 VI| throng)~ Giveth an urge and pressure from above~ And makes the 2533 I| co-partner in that verse~ Which I presume on Nature to compose~ For 2534 IV| wilt shun~ The error of presuming the clear lights~ Of eyes 2535 I| naught.~ Then why not rather presuppose there be~ Bodies with such 2536 III| he says,~ Nor what that presupposes, and he fails~ To pluck 2537 IV| Lacking the reason, to pretend a cause~ For each configuration, 2538 VI| from this stone the tide~ Prevails not likewise other things 2539 IV| thing, before~ The intellect previsions what it wills;~ And what 2540 V| the fears!~ And lo, the pride, grim greed, and wantonness -~ 2541 I| her grieving sire,~ The priests beside him who concealed 2542 V| Twas lightning brought primevally to earth~ The fire for mortals, 2543 II| motion ascends from the primevals on,~ And stage by stage 2544 I| is" the ravishment~ Of Princess Helen, "is" the siege and 2545 VI| have filled utterly,~ Then, prisoned in clouds, they rave around~ 2546 IV| not our wont~ To feel each private particle of wind~ Or of 2547 VI| and gold,~ With pick-axe probing round the hidden realms~ 2548 I| They contend,~ With like procedure, that all breathing things~ 2549 VI| noise~ And skiey uproar.~ To proceed apace,~ What sort of nature 2550 III| god-like mind begins its loud proclaim~ Of nature's courses, terrors 2551 I| too in everlasting verse~ Proclaims those vaults of Acheron 2552 IV| readily with seeds~ Suited for procreation, and that thick~ Should 2553 V| Afterwards,~ When huts they had procured and pelts and fire,~ And 2554 VI| of danger here at hand~ Prods them on some side with this 2555 IV| food, because~ The food produces same result as air,~ Whilst 2556 I| road to realms of thought profane;~ But 'tis that same religion 2557 V| booty fortune unto each~ Had proffered, each alone would bear away,~ 2558 III| first shed light~ Upon the profitable ends of man,~ O thee I follow, 2559 II| raves indeed~ From more profounder fires - and she, again,~ 2560 V| yet to dew~ Altars with profuse blood of four-foot beasts,~ 2561 I| ways of life,~ Of their progenitors.~ And then again,~ Since 2562 I| of chance.~ ~ So in our programme of creation, mark~ How ' 2563 II| filling up the sum~ In due progression, lie, my Memmius, there~ 2564 IV| from spot to spot is reft~ Progressively of light of sun, whenever~ 2565 V| s scarce begotten horns~ Project above his brows, with them 2566 III| Himself that body, and projecting there~ His own sense, as 2567 IV| The image of the glass projects itself,~ As to our gaze 2568 V| Soon bloody under the proletarian feet,~ Groaned for their 2569 II| And mark'st in them a less prolific stock,~ Yet in another region, 2570 III| next~ Awaiting us. Nor by prolonging life~ Take we the least 2571 I| from the point,~ This I can promise, Memmius, for a fact:~ Such 2572 IV| spears ere flew;~ And Nature prompted man to shun a wound,~ Before 2573 II| name of Bacchus rather than pronounce~ The liquor's proper designation, 2574 IV| forward drives them and propels, where, too,~ They're carried 2575 VI| Marking off regions of prophetic skies~ For auguries, O foolishly 2576 I| unless~ The season favour at propitious hour~ With rains enough 2577 IV| sides of mirrors curved~ Proportionate to the bulge of our own 2578 V| strength through time~ In like proportions; and then earth was young.~ ~ 2579 III| speed~ As what the mind proposes and begins;~ Therefore the 2580 III| Democritus, lays down -~ That proposition, that primordials~ Of body 2581 III| in like manner all~ Are props of weal and safety: rather 2582 VI| out there~ On the broad prospect of the level main~ Along 2583 IV| These ills are found in prospering love and true;~ But in crossed 2584 IV| wise crooked and ugly~ The prosperous sweethearts in a high esteem;~ 2585 V| weary eld, and that, again,~ Prospers in glory, issuing from contempt.~ 2586 V| kind~ To feed and be in our protection safe -~ Those, of a truth, 2587 IV| The pursy female with protuberant breasts~ She is "like Ceres 2588 III| Share in sensation, as proven by dull ache,~ By twinge 2589 VI| up-climb high mountains, proveth clear~ That windy are those 2590 III| around it's sorely rent -~ Provided only thou destroyest not~ 2591 IV| out-standing in the light,~ Provoking vision - what we cannot 2592 II| the ribs, the yards, the prow,~ The masts and swimming 2593 III| why is never a child's a prudent soul?~ And the mare's filly 2594 V| themselves~ (As stories tell) and published at last~ Old secrets and 2595 IV| wizened's "a gazelle";~ The pudgy and the pigmy is "piquant,~ 2596 VI| tremendously~ Aroused by puffing gusts; and whatso'er~ Of 2597 VI| grimace,~ The pulled and puffy flesh above the brows! -~ 2598 IV| Young Bacchus suck"; the pug-nosed lady-love~ "A Satyress, 2599 IV| Venus. But they'd ne'er~ So pull, except they knew those 2600 IV| hoisted high~ By enginery of pulley-blocks and wheels,~ With but light 2601 VI| perchance,~ In coming along, it pulls from out the air~ Some certain 2602 V| planks, besides to bore~ And punch and drill. And men began 2603 IV| preserved.~ ~ Yet is this pungence not alone in odours~ Or 2604 V| men-at-arms. And next~ The Punic folk did train the elephants -~ 2605 V| Tis thence~ That fear of punishments defiles each prize~ Of wicked 2606 V| they start to lick~ Their puppies, or do toss them round with 2607 IV| luminous~ Followeth in, which purges then the eyes~ And scatters 2608 V| now thou seest to ripen purple-red~ In winter time, the old 2609 IV| country's leaves. Thus all pursuits,~ All arts in general seem 2610 IV| dead of coughing-fit;~ The pursy female with protuberant 2611 VI| behind~ Conveys it onward, pushing from the rear.~ For ever 2612 III| cadavers, then,~ From out their putrid flesh exhale the worms,~ 2613 V| aught of reasons tries the puzzled mind:~ Whether was ever 2614 III| beside whilst on the awful pyre~ Thou wert made ashes; and 2615 VI| frames of alien funeral pyres,~ Place their own kin, and 2616 I| soundlier based~ Than ever the Pythia pronounced for men~ From 2617 V| soundlier based~ Than ever the Pythian pronounced for men~ From 2618 IV| puts the fat on goats and quails.~ That thou mayst know by 2619 I| Defiled Diana's altar, virgin queen,~ With Agamemnon's daughter, 2620 I| their combinations can be quenched~ And change their substance, 2621 IV| arriving dissipates~ And quenches like a fire, that parching 2622 IV| cushions of soft beds,~ And quenching thirst is earlier than cups.~ 2623 I| The extreme coasts, I'll query, "what becomes~ Thereafter 2624 V| WORLD AND~ ASTRONOMICAL QUESTIONS~ ~ But in what modes that 2625 V| they be~ With life-force quickened.~ Likewise, thou canst ne' 2626 VI| round about~ Rather than quit dead bodies loved in life.~ ~ ~ - 2627 V| shrieked,~ Pressing their quivering palms to loathsome sores,~ 2628 I| how,~ For this all ether quivers with bright stars,~ And 2629 II| straight line?~ ~ Again, if ev'r all motions are co-linked,~ 2630 IV| him there to run love's race-course through.~ Nor otherwise 2631 II| planter of the withered vine~ Rails at the season's change and 2632 I| property of touch.~ And raiment, hung by surf-beat shore, 2633 V| subdued by warmth~ And by the raining blows of fiery beams,~ Through 2634 V| Aught of their numbers rally. For each breed~ And various 2635 VI| strong,~ And, so to say, rallying charge again,~ And then 2636 V| battle-banners, nor would then~ The ramping breakers of the main seas 2637 VI| with whirl of winds should range~ Along the laurel-tressed 2638 V| haunts discovered as they ranged -~ From forth of which they 2639 V| forth~ Each breast that ranges raving round about~ Upon 2640 II| blood; the orphaned mother,~ Ranging meanwhile green woodland 2641 V| seemly him~ To dignify by ranking with the gods? -~ And all 2642 V| some~ Sent on before their ranks puissant lions~ With armed 2643 VI| Beneath her chine, rolls rapidly along~ Its billows and plunging 2644 IV| off,~ With texture of such rareness that they can~ Through objects 2645 IV| And banquets, set~ With rarest cloth and viands, are prepared -~ 2646 VI| force of wind must not be rashly deemed~ As altogether and 2647 II| Able at once to roll, and rasp the sense.~ And that the 2648 II| suppose~ That the shrill rasping of a squeaking saw~ Consists 2649 V| grow, nor need the little rattles,~ Nor must be treated to 2650 VI| scarce wheezing through the rattling throat.~ Aye, and the sinews 2651 VI| torments of the mind,~ And raved perforce with angry plaints, 2652 II| dyes,~ Is lost asunder, ravelled thread by thread;~ Hence 2653 II| For then 'twere meet that ravens, as they fly,~ Should dartle 2654 III| swift wheels and scythes of ravin have dragged~ Off with the 2655 I| they say there "is" the ravishment~ Of Princess Helen, "is" 2656 V| one with other in mutual ravishments.~ ~ And in the ages after 2657 II| by vertical or slanting ray.~ Thus in the sunlight shows 2658 IV| and by its interfusion~ To re-create their powers, and there 2659 III| therefore dies.~ For parts are re-disposed and leave their order;~ 2660 V| seeps back again~ And all re-gathers at the river-heads,~ Whence 2661 VI| sheaves of harvest, and re-ordered life,~ And decreed laws; 2662 VI| seeps back again~ And all re-poureth at the river-heads,~ Whence 2663 VI| followeth on until~ 'Thath reached the stone itself and cleaved 2664 III| should add~ New parts, or readjust the order given,~ Or from 2665 I| not of itself; but sense~ Reads out of things what happened 2666 V| tusk by shying off,~ Or rearing up with hoofs a-paw in air.~ 2667 V| grafted that quaking awe which rears aloft~ Still the new temples 2668 V| For the lack~ Of aught of reasons tries the puzzled mind:~ 2669 IV| nor can the senses be~ Rebutted. For criterion must be found~ 2670 V| light, the more~ She doth recede from orb of sun, until,~ 2671 I| however full the Sum -~ Received opinion, wholly false forsooth.~ 2672 III| Bestirs itself in many a wise, receiving~ All motions of joy and 2673 | recent 2674 VI| smite they not~ Mortals of reckless and revolting crimes,~ That 2675 III| separate body come,~ And reckonest not why many thousand souls~ 2676 II| surveyed~ The light of sun, yet recognise by touch~ Things that from 2677 III| power of mind,~ That every recollection of things done~ Is fallen 2678 V| things~ Bodies, and thus recruit them as they stream,~ All 2679 III| Produce the savours and the redolence~ In the whole body of the 2680 VI| the azure firmament~ The reek of darkling cloud. It happens, 2681 IV| seem to whirl and posts to reel,~ Until they now must almost 2682 IV| languish and their honest name~ Reeleth sick, sick; and meantime 2683 III| of the legs as round he reels,~ A stuttering tongue, an 2684 II| back~ To something else refers - a severed hand,~ Or any 2685 IV| spoiled of light~ And easily refilled and from herself~ Washeth 2686 V| Babylonian doctrine of Chaldees,~ Refuting the art of Greek astrologers,~ 2687 V| rains. Nor could they then regard~ The general good, nor did 2688 I| He thinks they cannot as regards all else,~ Which still are 2689 III| seated life's~ Counsel and regimen, is part no less~ Of man 2690 III| themselves;~ But chief and regnant through the frame entire~ 2691 II| nor rank, nor glory of a reign~ Avail us naught for this 2692 II| being forward cast, to be~ Reined up, whereat it settles back 2693 V| things chafe seems likely to rejoice~ At new; but one that in 2694 IV| whence~ Could sense amain rekindled be in members,~ As flame 2695 VI| taste;~ And many, besides, relax the languid limbs~ Along 2696 VI| from all its limbs~ The relics of its life. That power 2697 I| unconquered to withstand~ Religions and the menacings of seers.~ 2698 III| consciousness recall~ Through the remembering mind. For there hath been~ 2699 VI| This air, whereof I am reminding thee,~ Winding athrough 2700 III| t has rendered up~ All remnants of the soul. Nay, once again:~ 2701 IV| self, now stricken with remorse~ For slothful years and 2702 IV| facing him who threw,~ And so remould the features it gives back:~ 2703 III| not himself~ Therefrom, removing not the self enough~ From 2704 I| body all the void,~ Thus rendering by these alternates the 2705 IV| With hand to hand, and rending of the joints,~ And fouling 2706 V| carried on to-day~ By fixed renewal. But knew I never what~ 2707 II| must keep things whole, renewing;~ 'Tis food must prop and 2708 I| exhalations of the sun,~ Renews her broods, and that the 2709 I| within her aught of more renown,~ Nor aught more holy, wonderful, 2710 I| wont whatever losses to repair.~ For as the nature of breathing 2711 III| thing from the others is repaired.~ Nor no man is consigned 2712 VI| its own velocity and by~ Repeated touch of fire. Thereafter, 2713 IV| strook by blows of air~ Repeatedly. And therefore almost all~ 2714 III| what come somehow retire,~ Repelled or ere we feel the harm 2715 II| Thus the sum~ Forever is replenished, and we live~ As mortals 2716 IV| around us, and to speak replies,~ Though voiceless. Other 2717 I| Whence he to us, a conqueror, reports~ What things can rise to 2718 V| inveigle them -~ The hitherto reposeful - to desire~ To change their 2719 II| is the armed troop that represents~ The arm'd Dictaean Curetes, 2720 VI| charge again,~ And then repulsed retreat, on this account~ 2721 VI| needs of man most urgently require~ Was ready to hand for mortals, 2722 II| It thus remains they must resemble, then,~ Live creatures as 2723 I| eternal singleness,~ Nature, reserving them as seeds for things,~ 2724 I| meet~ As not by mingling to resign their nature,~ From them 2725 VI| aught that can~ With ease resist such nature. For it darts~ 2726 II| any time, to aught~ Oppose resistance, but will ever yield,~ True 2727 IV| thus the woman hinders and resists~ Her own conception, if 2728 II| world,~ And then forever resolve it when begot,~ And by what 2729 I| fosters all, and whither she resolves~ Each in the end when each 2730 V| of earth~ Assign as last resort almighty powers~ And wondrous 2731 VI| which shock~ Comes such resounding and abounding rain,~ That 2732 V| The varied shapes of her resplendence there.~ For near her is, 2733 IV| of form and hue the same~ Respond. Besides, though but a moment 2734 I| the heart's own shrine,~ Responses holier and soundlier based~ 2735 II| whereby at once~ Each is restrained by each, and from without~ 2736 II| whole from being of one resultant hue.~ Then, too, the reason 2737 III| The varied natures and resulting habits~ Of humankind - of 2738 II| nor object~ Nor any cause retards, no marvel 'tis~ That things 2739 II| own temples, and to rave,~ Retiring to the wildernesses, there~ 2740 VI| again,~ And then repulsed retreat, on this account~ Earth 2741 IV| expelled abroad,~ A part retreateth in recesses hid,~ A part, 2742 III| has faced about, and back~ Retreats sharp poison of corrupted 2743 III| in this life is fear~ Of retributions just and expiations~ For 2744 I| themselves be thought,~ By retroversion, primal germs of them?~ 2745 IV| whose night noise~ And antic revels yonder they declare~ The 2746 VI| wrath to thirst to seek~ Revenges keen; but even because thyself~ 2747 I| the solid walls and fly~ Reverberant through shut doorways of 2748 III| comradry~ And oversets all reverence and faith,~ Mid direst slaughter. 2749 III| the feel in eyes~ Says the reverse. For this itself draws on~ 2750 V| In Capricorn, the thence reverting veers~ Back to solstitial 2751 IV| rising out~ And thence revisiting their far descents~ When 2752 VI| Mortals of reckless and revolting crimes,~ That such may pant 2753 V| glowing light,~ And by the revolution of that sphere~ She may 2754 III| less the thoughts~ A man revolves in mind. So unto these~ 2755 V| mighty sphere of heaven~ Revolveth round, then needs we must 2756 V| around~ The mighty, the revolving vault, have taught~ Unto 2757 V| we secure to them as fit rewards~ For their good service. 2758 IV| other members round~ In rhythmic time - and often in men' 2759 II| herself of own accord,~ Rid of all gods. For - by their 2760 V| prevailed against all engin'ries~ Of the assaulting aeons, 2761 V| mid-most winter goals~ And rigors of the cold, and the other 2762 V| deeds,~ And coupled thereto rigours of fierce wrath!~ What groans 2763 V| which they knew that gliding rills~ With gush and splash abounding 2764 VI| paving-block~ Gives either iron rim of the wheels a jolt.~ It 2765 IV| films or may be named a rind,~ Because the image bears 2766 VI| tormented ears~ Beset with ringings, the breath quick and short~ 2767 V| Which now thou seest to ripen purple-red~ In winter time, 2768 III| Yet should one complain,~ Riper in years and elder, and 2769 V| Nor yet emerge unto their rising-place:~ For this it is that nights 2770 V| Wherefore thou mightest risk embracing one~ More than 2771 II| wide nations, after antique rite,~ Do name Idaean Mother, 2772 I| both in works and ways they rival well~ The mighty rivers, 2773 III| And that they make no rivalries of strength!~ ~ Again, in 2774 VI| the force of wind~ Hath rived this cloud, from out the 2775 VI| instant to have sprung apart,~ Riven asunder, what time a gathered 2776 II| water-haunts,~ About the river-banks and springs and pools,~ 2777 I| refresh the greedy main~ With river-waves abounding, and that earth,~ 2778 VI| abroad, and then and there,~ Riving the deep earth, makes a 2779 V| boiling veins began to ooze~ O rivulets of silver and of gold,~ 2780 II| things,~ Nor sound, since pow'rless they to send forth aught~ 2781 V| walls, laws, and arms, and roads,~ Dress and the like, all 2782 V| Afforded the beasts a food that roared alive,~ Echoing through 2783 III| abounding lions,~ Who often with roaring burst the breast o'erwrought,~ 2784 III| Bitter to lie on fires and roast in flames,~ Or suffocate 2785 II| And now for thee barbaric robes, and gleam~ Of Meliboean 2786 VI| idols of divinities,~ And robs of glory his own images~ 2787 III| years have ripened into robust powers,~ Counsel is also 2788 I| insidiously. We view~ The rock-paved highways worn by many feet;~ 2789 V| earth~ From end to end is rocking under foot,~ And shaken 2790 V| y-driven,~ They'd flee their rocky shelters at approach~ Of 2791 I| syllables to win~ Peace for the Romans, glorious Lady, peace!~ 2792 V| the crows~ Or flocks of rooks, when they be said to cry~ 2793 VI| houses and inside the very rooms~ With swift flame hold a 2794 III| suppose~ Evil can e'er be rooted up so far~ That one man' 2795 V| fixed hour~ Spreadeth the roseate morning out along~ The coasts 2796 II| and shade~ With flowers of roses falling like the snow~ Upon 2797 VI| grottos, borne about~ In mad rotations, till their lashed force~ 2798 I| stupid ears,~ Or which is rouged in finely finished phrase.~ 2799 VI| sky, oft shapes of clouds~ Rough-edged or branched many forky ways;~ 2800 VI| unnumbered particles -~ World's rougher ones, which can, though 2801 VI| so that we may shun?~ Why rouseth he beforehand darkling air~ 2802 IV| That many images of objects rove~ In many modes to every 2803 V| men led a life~ After the roving habit of wild beasts.~ Not 2804 II| wont to scatter wide~ The rowers' banks, the ribs, the yards, 2805 V| men adorn and plant~ With rows of goodly fruit-trees and 2806 I| seeds of heat, and when~ Rubbing together they together flow,~ 2807 IV| straight, and straight~ The rudders from above. But other parts,~ 2808 V| much - until at last~ The rugged farmer folk jeered at such 2809 V| we not~ The rended basalt ruining amain~ Down from the lofty 2810 III| This nature of mind, now ruler of our body,~ Born from 2811 I| mortality; since he who rules~ The savage works of battle, 2812 V| meadow-plats,~ Cisterns and runnels, crops of standing grain,~ 2813 II| generations pass,~ And like to runners hand the lamp of life~ One 2814 IV| god-Pan~ With puckered lip oft runneth o'er and o'er~ The open 2815 I| things,~ Permitteth naught of rupture or decrease.~ ~ Moreover, 2816 VI| cloud, from out the cloud it rushes~ Down on the seas, and starts 2817 V| circle round; for then the rustic muse~ Was in her glory; 2818 II| other men~ And see them ev'rywhere wand'ring, all dispersed~ 2819 I| That nowhere can a world's-end be, and that~ The chance 2820 IV| asunder of that other air~ The sable shadows, for in large degrees~ 2821 I| Helen, "is" the siege and sack~ Of Trojan Town, look out, 2822 III| yet~ Make the ancestral sacrifices there,~ Butcher the black 2823 I| day,~ Making his child a sacrificial beast~ To give the ships 2824 III| pauper-speech~ Constrains me sadly. As I can, however,~ I'll 2825 I| arrive and pregnant earth~ Safely may give unto the shores 2826 IV| Even there the houghs will sag and loose their powers.~ 2827 III| nowise take up~ What honoured sage, Democritus, lays down -~ 2828 VI| many a half-dead body the sagged limbs,~ Rough with squalor, 2829 IV| tottering. The ship in which we sail~ Is borne along, although 2830 V| Would the sea flower and sail-winged ships;~ Already men had, 2831 V| Shows us a footprint.~ Sailings on the seas,~ Tillings of 2832 V| things abide,~ Even as report saith now some peoples live.~ 2833 IV| contagion paint~ All things with sallowness. Again, we view~ From dark 2834 VI| what gates a man~ Should sally to each combat. And he proved~ 2835 II| borne,~ She blesses man with salutations mute,~ They strew the highway 2836 II| fashion; or suppose~ That same-shaped atoms through men's nostrils 2837 VI| follow. Yea, I've seen~ Those Samothracian iron rings leap up,~ And 2838 II| sea~ Beats on the thirsty sands of curving shores.~ Wherefore 2839 IV| more unmixed for mortals sane-of-soul~ Than for those sick-at-heart 2840 I| brute herds, as our Ennius sang,~ Who first from lovely 2841 I| dry;~ Yet no one saw how sank the moisture in,~ Nor how 2842 II| compounded, for a fact,~ Of sapient seeds and eloquent, why, 2843 IV| lovers. Nor they cannot sate their lust~ By merely gazing 2844 III| Filling with good things, satisfying never -~ As do the seasons 2845 II| the brass on brass,~ That Saturn might not get him for his 2846 IV| pug-nosed lady-love~ "A Satyress, a feminine Silenus";~ The 2847 IV| Haunts of the goat-foot satyrs and the nymphs;~ And tells 2848 V| gins~ Enraged to butt and savagely to thrust.~ But whelps of 2849 I| things move and be:~ Naught, saving body, acts, is acted on;~ 2850 IV| and the white goose,~ The saviour of the Roman citadel,~ Forescents 2851 III| opened doors,~ Is - a hard saying; since the feel in eyes~ 2852 III| We feed upon thy golden sayings all -~ Golden, and ever 2853 VI| that conflagration!"~ So sayst thou; well, huge many a 2854 I| distended bags;~ Hence the young scamper on their weakling joints~ 2855 I| of the sun and moon;~ To scan the powers that speed all 2856 VI| life. If any then~ Had 'scaped the doom of that destruction, 2857 VI| direful stenches, too,~ Scaptensula out-breathes from down below,~ 2858 IV| flee those images;~ And scare afar whatever feeds thy 2859 VI| and cliffs~ And jagged scarps; and many a river, hid~ 2860 VI| things,~ And by the scorched scars exhaling round~ The heavy 2861 III| comes~ Hard upon death a scattering more great~ Of the throng 2862 IV| the ugly creature and she scents,~ Yes she, her wretched 2863 III| dames,~ Among whom Homer, sceptered o'er them all~ Now lies 2864 II| what is't that strikes thy sceptic mind,~ Constraining thee 2865 V| golden thrones~ And haughty sceptres lay o'erturned in dust;~ 2866 III| house.~ Add finders-out of sciences and arts;~ Add comrades 2867 I| events~ The illustrious scion of the Memmian house~ Neglect 2868 II| thus to be, and thus the scions of men~ To be begot, and 2869 III| his light was ta'en.~ And Scipio's son, the thunderbolt of 2870 I| drippings from the eaves will scoop the stone;~ The hooked ploughshare, 2871 VI| heat on things,~ And by the scorched scars exhaling round~ The 2872 IV| depart away~ With bosom scorning these the spoken truths,~ 2873 I| plains~ With mighty trees, or scour the mountain tops~ With 2874 I| by many an argument~ Here scrape together credence for my 2875 IV| the door of the mouth is scraped against~ By air blown outward 2876 IV| strike.~ Besides voice often scrapes against the throat,~ And 2877 IV| she who scarcely lives for scrawniness~ Becomes "a slender darling"; " 2878 II| in locks,~ Do grate and scream. But what are liquid, formed~ 2879 VI| Impelled; and with a monstrous screaming they~ Would, on the frames 2880 IV| against the throat,~ And screams in going out do make more 2881 III| precepts; and from out~ Those scriven leaves of thine, renowned 2882 VI| not~ To unwind Etrurian scrolls oracular,~ Inquiring tokens 2883 I| Now let us also take for scrutiny~ The homeomeria of Anaxagoras,~ 2884 VI| Because the ethereal clouds, scudding aloft,~ Together clash, 2885 V| chiselled shapes~ Of polished sculptures - all these arts were learned~ 2886 V| Than yokes of four, or scythed chariots~ Whereinto clomb 2887 I| broached.~ NOTHING EXISTS per se EXCEPT ATOMS~ AND THE VOID~ ~ 2888 II| man's trunk,~ Limbs of a sea-beast to a land-beast knit,~ And 2889 V| birds,~ Hawks, ospreys, sea-gulls, searching food and life~ 2890 V| ever have come up~ Out of sea-pools of salt. How true remains,~ 2891 IV| are set in gold;~ And rich sea-purple dress by constant wear~ 2892 II| Tis fit thou hold well sealed, and keep consigned~ With 2893 VI| The brand-marks of their searing heat on things,~ And by 2894 III| cleaving still~ To one sole seat, to one fixed haunt, the 2895 III| in true death there is no second self~ Alive and able to 2896 II| lands away.~ ABSENCE OF SECONDARY QUALITIES~ ~ Now come, this 2897 IV| winged lightness on;~ And, secondly, since furnished, when sent 2898 V| and published at last~ Old secrets and the sins.~ But Nature ' 2899 III| With an immortal and a secular~ To bear the outrageous 2900 V| as lightly too;~ Nor soft seductions of a serene sea~ Could lure 2901 V| of things, was the first seed-sower~ And primal grafter; since 2902 IV| any man~ The fruits of his seed-sowing, so that never~ He be called " 2903 III| life is now offence,~ Why seekest more to add - which in its 2904 III| also a Sisyphus~ In him who seeketh of the populace~ The rods, 2905 IV| of heaven; that thus thou seemest to view~ Clouds down below 2906 V| arms, O shall it not be seemly him~ To dignify by ranking 2907 I| Religions and the menacings of seers.~ But now nor skill nor 2908 II| its body mixed~ And in it seethed. And on the same account~ 2909 VI| And think that suddenly it seethes in heat~ By intense sun, 2910 VI| often the sharp twinge~ Seizes the teeth, attacks the very 2911 VI| burneth every part~ It seizeth on, and works its hideous 2912 I| Vexing and whirling and seizing all amain;~ And forth they 2913 IV| passion - miserable dupes~ Who seldom mark their own worst bane 2914 VI| why is rather he -~ O he self-conscious of no foul offence -~ Involved 2915 IV| ourselves~ In snarls of self-deceit.~ SOME VITAL FUNCTIONS~ ~ 2916 I| first body: being thus~ Not self-existent, they must cleave to that~ 2917 IV| be of own accord~ Begot, self-formed in earth's aery skies,~ 2918 III| us aught,~ When once the self-succession of our sense~ Has been asunder 2919 I| begun,~ All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists~ Of twain of things: 2920 III| Without desire of any selfhood more,~ For all it matters 2921 IV| truly round,~ But with a semblance to them, shadowily.~ Likewise, 2922 II| sides round~ More bodies, sending them from out itself.~ Nor 2923 II| from insensate germs~ The sensible is gendered? - Verily,~ ' 2924 V| be~ Likewise the common sepulchre of things,~ Therefore thou 2925 VI| repose,~ With the winds sepulchred on all sides round:~ Then 2926 VI| Remained those rites of sepulture, with which~ That pious 2927 V| order they come round~ In sequence also.~ Likewise, days may 2928 III| about it all?~ Is't not serener far than any sleep?~ And, 2929 IV| though but a moment since~ Serenest was the weather of the sky,~ 2930 I| Among the silly, not the serious Greeks~ Who search for truth. 2931 V| Lucanian oxen, hideous,~ The serpent-handed, with turrets on their bulks -~ 2932 IV| Unto the sturdy uppers, or serving hands~ On either side were 2933 VI| into our marrow-bones,~ Sets us convulsively, despite 2934 IV| and part~ Crammed back and settling deep within the frame -~ 2935 IV| back even voices six or seven~ For one thrown forth - 2936 III| energy of soul,~ After their severance from this body of ours,~ 2937 IV| by constant wear~ Grows shabby and all soaked with Venus' 2938 III| of the cups,~ With faces shaded by fresh wreaths awry:~ " 2939 IV| with a semblance to them, shadowily.~ Likewise, our shadow in 2940 III| corrupted frame~ Into its shadowy lairs, the man at first~ 2941 IV| comrades wandering~ Among the shady mountains, and aloud~ Call 2942 VI| decide upon the stroke of shaft?~ And, lastly, why, with 2943 IV| gets a stroke from Venus' shafts -~ Whether a boy with limbs 2944 V| And Love reduced their shaggy hardiness;~ And children, 2945 II| whiten: for however~ Thou shakest azure seeds, the same can 2946 IV| their formations share in shaping them.~ Hence when the space 2947 II| the plains,~ Ourselves no sharers in the peril; but naught~ 2948 VI| In narrow confines, and sharpens there inside~ In glowing 2949 V| could be nicely drawn~ To sharpest points or finest edge, and 2950 I| Some outward force may shatter by a blow,~ Or inward craft, 2951 III| where already~ The body's shattered by master-powers of eld,~ 2952 II| beyond its nature's strength~ Shatters forthwith each living thing 2953 V| down, to hew the logs,~ To shave the beams and planks, besides 2954 VI| much delights~ The bearded she-goats, verily as though~ 'Twere 2955 V| With spring~ The infuriate she-lions would up-leap~ Now here, 2956 VI| hapless sons of men~ The sheaves of harvest, and re-ordered 2957 II| sun from peak of heaven~ Sheds round to every quarter its 2958 VI| imitates the tearing sound of sheets~ Of paper - even this kind 2959 II| with dye~ Of the Thessalian shell...~ The peacock's golden 2960 VI| oil-of-olive. And purple dye~ Of shell-fish so uniteth with the wool' 2961 V| They'd flee their rocky shelters at approach~ Of boar, the 2962 IV| Must turn out faulty - shelving and askew,~ Leaning to back 2963 V| through the untrod haunts~ Of shepherd folk and spots divinely 2964 VI| Attacked.~ ~ By now the shepherds and neatherds all,~ Yea, 2965 III| horses his left arm and shield;~ Nor other how his right 2966 IV| aid of art~ Opposed the shielding targe. And, verily,~ Yielding 2967 II| directions round.~ Lo, all their shifting movement is of old,~ From 2968 V| tree-crickets~ Do leave their shiny husks of own accord,~ Seeking 2969 V| for the science bold~ Of ship-sailing lay dark in those far times.~ 2970 II| But, just as, after mighty shipwrecks piled,~ The mighty main 2971 VI| sure the jointed frame~ To shiver, and up from feet the cold 2972 V| that fire~ Rendered their shivering frames less staunch to bear,~ 2973 VI| thunderbolt shakes into shivers all~ That blocks its path, 2974 V| all his mouthings, to the shoals of doom.~ Ah, so irrevocably 2975 I| as not yet assailed~ By shocks of peril. But because the 2976 IV| unguents and dainty Sicyonian shoes~ Laugh on their feet; and ( 2977 VI| amid the tempest-murk~ Hath shone against the showers of black 2978 VI| innumerable collisions, but~ Flies shooting onward with a swift elan.~ 2979 III| immortal deemed,~ Since, shorn of some parts lost, 'thas 2980 V| thunder-bolts. At last earth's Shortest-Day~ Bears on to men the snows 2981 VI| impetus so wondrous, like to shots~ Hurled from the powerful 2982 III| this it is~ To shove with shoulder up the hill a stone~ Which 2983 II| mountain walls, smote by the shouting, send~ The voices onward 2984 III| of toil, O this it is~ To shove with shoulder up the hill 2985 II| proved is not the fact,~ Showing in verse how corpuscles 2986 V| with bone and body bitten, shrieked,~ Pressing their quivering 2987 V| fury, from the wounds, the shrieks, the flight,~ The panic, 2988 I| from out of the heart's own shrine,~ Responses holier and soundlier 2989 I| And in these problems, shrink, my Memmius, far~ From yielding 2990 V| hedge round~ With thriving shrubberies sown.~ But by the mouth~ 2991 V| sight the fire~ Is nothing shrunken. Therefore, since the heat~ 2992 III| coasts of arching heaven~ Shuddered and trembled, and all humankind~ 2993 IV| heights and places to be shunned~ Of a like peril, and to 2994 I| and take. Either of which~ Shuts off escape for thee, and 2995 V| the treadles, spindles, shuttles,~ And sounding yarn-beams. 2996 V| savage thrusts of tusk by shying off,~ Or rearing up with 2997 VI| rose~ And held dominion in Sicilian fields:~ Drawing upon itself 2998 IV| sane-of-soul~ Than for those sick-at-heart with love-pining.~ Yea, 2999 V| maladies~ With which have sickened in the past those men~ Whom 3000 V| and the shape~ Of brazen sickle into scorn was turned:~ 3001 III| That thou indulgest in too sickly plaints?~ Why this bemoaning