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Subject: LUCRETIUS (99-55 B.C.)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DE NATURA RERUM, by YVES BONNEFOY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lucretius knew: %open the casket
Last Line: One of them all muffled %in red wool?
Subject(s): Coffins; Lucretius (99-55 B.c.)


DE RERUM NATURA: BOOK 1, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Delight of humane kind, and gods above
Last Line: And quiet to the weary world restore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius
Subject(s): Lucretius (99-55 B.c.); Mankind; Nature; Translating & Interpreting; Human Race


DE RERUM NATURA: BOOK 2, SELECTION, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis pleasant, safely to behold from shore
Last Line: Their beames abroad, and bring the darksome soul to day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius
Subject(s): Lucretius (99-55 B.c.); Nature; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Translating & Interpreting


DE RERUM NATURA: BOOK 3. AGAINST THE FEAR OF DEATH, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What has this bugbear death to frighten man
Last Line: As he who dy'd a thousand years ago.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius
Variant Title(s): Translations From Lucretius De Rerum Natura: From The Latter Part Of
Subject(s): Death; Fear; Life; Lucretius (99-55 B.c.); Translating & Interpreting; Dead, The


DE RERUM NATURA: BOOK 5, SELECTION, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS    Poem Text                     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


EARTHLY COURSE OF JUSTICE, by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: We learned it in this way
Last Line: Da vinci dissecting a womb
Subject(s): Books; Justice; Knowledge; Lucretius (99-55 B.c.); Wisdom


LUCRETIUS, by LIONEL PIGOT JOHNSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lucretius! King of men, that are
Subject(s): Lucretius (99-55 B.c.); Poetry And Poets


LUCRETIUS, by PHILLIPS KLOSS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Democritus the atom progenitor, lucretius the atom poet
Subject(s): Democritus (460-370 B.c.); Lucretius (99-55 B.c.); Philosophy And Philosophers


LUCRETIUS, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lucilia, wedded to lucretius, found
Last Line: Thy duty? What is duty? Fare thee well!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Lucretius (99-55 B.c.)


LUCRETIUS, III, 1053-1076, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Baudelaire knew what it was like
Last Line: Cannot be called very helpful
Subject(s): Lucretius (99-55 B.c.)


LUCRETIUS, III, 1053-1076, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Baudelaire knew what it was like
Last Line: Cannot be called very helpful
Subject(s): Lucretius (99-55 B.c.)


SUITE FOR LUCRETIANS, by JAMES RICHARDSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Because the oysters I sucked down
Last Line: Otherwise nothing is left to the imagination, %other there is no otherwise
Subject(s): Lucretius (99-55 B.c.)