Catullus
Catullus
Gaius Valerius Catulluswas a Latin poet of the late Roman Republic who wrote in the neoteric style of poetry. His surviving works are still read widely, and continue to influence poetry and other forms of art...
laughter men tears
Godlike the man who sits at her side, who watches and catches that laughter which (softly) tears me to tatters: nothing is left of me, each time I see her...
delight sparrows
My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady's delight
girl flower boys
So a maiden, while she remains untouched, remains dear to her own; but when she has lost her chaste flower with sullied body, she remains neither lovely to boys nor dear to girls.
laughter silly
Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.
love
Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
gratitude giving-up grateful
Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.
love hate hatred
I hate and I love. Perchance you ask why I do that. I know not, but I feel that I do and I am tortured. [Lat., Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.]
faults wallets
Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
godly needs poet
For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.
blessed home tired
Ah, what is more blessed than to put cares away, when the mind lays by its burden, and tired with labor of far travel we have come to our own home and rest on the couch we longed for? This it is which alone is worth all these toils.
love hate two
I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.
kissing giving funny-valentine
Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
love passion difficult
It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
funny humor
But you shall not escape my iambics.