Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LIBER QUARTUS, SELECTION, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS


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First Line: Nor will ingenious women, free from pride
Last Line: That parents nature is most prevalent.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius
Subject(s): Family Life; Pride; Women; Relatives; Self-esteem; Self-respect


Nor will ingenious women, free from pride
Humane defects from honest lovers hide.
Nor doe the female sex their sighs still feigne
Sometimes their brests a reall love conteine.
One fire, them and their lovers doth enflame,
Their joyes are equall, their desires the same.
Nor could all birds, beasts, heards and flocks encrease,
Unless desires the females did possesse.
Both sexes must all generations make,
In which some ofsprings more the sire pertake,
Some more the dam, and soe we find
Even in the generations of menkind,
Their fathers images some children beare,
Some like their mothers, and their grandsires are.
For in their parents bodies are mixt seeds
Which this varietie of figures breeds;
Wherein the litle ofspring doe arise
With their forefathers countenance, shape, hayre, voyce.
Sometimes in girles the fathers face we see,
The mothers in the boyes, sometimes they be
Made up of both, and soe we in one face
Lines both of father and of mother trace.
And whom the children do most represent
That parents nature is most prevalent.





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