De Rerum Natura

Lucretius

Lucretius. De Rerum Natura. William Ellery Leonard. E. P. Dutton. 1916.

  1. Sometimes too
  2. It happens- and through no divinity
  3. Nor arrows of Venus- that a sorry chit
  4. Of scanty grace will be beloved by man;
  5. For sometimes she herself by very deeds,
  6. By her complying ways, and tidy habits,
  7. Will easily accustom thee to pass
  8. With her thy life-time- and, moreover, lo,
  9. Long habitude can gender human love,
  10. Even as an object smitten o'er and o'er
  11. By blows, however lightly, yet at last
  12. Is overcome and wavers. Seest thou not,
  13. Besides, how drops of water falling down
  14. Against the stones at last bore through the stones?