Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DE RERUM NATURA: BOOK 5, SELECTION, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS Poet's Biography First Line: Thus like a sailor by the tempest hurled Last Line: And nature's lavish hand supplies their common wants. Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius Variant Title(s): The Infant Subject(s): Lucretius (99-55 B.c.); Nature; Storms; Translating & Interpreting | ||||||||
THUS like a Sayler by a Tempest hurl'd A shore, the Babe is shipwrack'd on the World: Naked he lies, and ready to expire; Helpless of all that humane wants require: Expos'd upon unhospitable Earth, From the first moment of his hapless Birth. Straight with forebodeing cryes he fills the Room; (Too true presages of his future doom.) But Flocks, and Herds, and every Savage Beast, By more indulgent Nature are increas'd, They want no Rattles for their froward mood, Nor Nurse to reconcile them to their food, With broken words; nor Winter blasts they fear, Nor change their habits with the changing year: Nor, for their safety, Citadels prepare; Nor forge the wicked Instruments of War: Unlabour'd Earth her bounteous treasure grants, And Nature's lavish hand supplies their common wants. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ANOTHER TRANSLATOR by RICHARD HOWARD VERSE TRANSLATOR by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS READING THE RUSSIANS by RUTH STONE HAG OF BEARE (CAILLECH BERRI) by ANNE WALDMAN ALICE CORBIN IS GONE by CARL SANDBURG TO HIS WORTHY FRIEND, DOCTOR WITTY by ANDREW MARVELL TO MY HONOURED FRIEND DR.WITTY, CONCERNING HIS TRANSLATION by ANDREW MARVELL THE TRANSLATOR by NOVELLA MATVEYEVA TO MRS. --, ON HER BEAUTIFUL TRANSLATION OF VOITURE'S KISS by THOMAS MOORE DE RERUM NATURA: BOOK 3. AGAINST THE FEAR OF DEATH by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS DE RERUM NATURA [ON THE NATURE OF THINGS]: 1, 1-15 (VERSION 2) by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS DE RERUM NATURA, LIBER PRIMUS: BOOK 1. LINES 176-209 by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS |
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