Boy and Girl

VIS multa gracilis te puer in rosa

Qpeffusus liquidis urget odoribus

grato, Pyrrha, sub antro?

cui flauam religas comam

simplex munditiis? heu quotiens fidem
mutatosque deos flebit et aspera
nigris aequora uentis
emirabitur insolens,

qui nunc te fruitur credulus aurea,
qui semper uacuam, semper amabilem
sperat, nescius aurae

fallacis. miseri, quibus

intemptata nites. me tabula sacer uotiua paries indicat uuida

suspendisse potenti

uestimenta maris deo.

Metre, Fifth Asclepiad.

Odes i. 5.

Wcourts thee on roses in some pleasant cave,

/HAT slender youth bedewed with liquid odours

Pyrrha, for whom bind'st thou

In wreaths thy golden hair,

Plain in thy neatness? O how oft shall he
On faith and changed gods complain and seas
Rough with black winds and storms

Unwonted shall admire :

:

Who now enjoys thee credulous, all gold,
Who always vacant, always amiable
Hopes thee, of flattering gales
Unmindful. Hapless they

To whom thou untried seem'st fair. Me in my vowed
Picture the sacred wall declares to have hung
My dank and dripping weeds

To the stern God of Sea.

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Winter

ES ut alta stet niue candidum net Soracte nec iam sustineant onus siluae laborantes geluque

flumina constiterint acuto?

dissolue frigus ligna super foco large reponens atque benignius deprome quadrimum Sabina, o Thaliarche, merum diota. permitte diuis cetera, qui simul strauere uentos aequore feruido deproeliantis, nec cupressi

nec ueteres agitantur orni.

quid sit futurum cras, fuge quaerere, et quem Fors dierum cumque dabit, lucro adpone nec dulcis amores

sperne, puer, neque tu choreas,

donec uirenti canities abest

morosa. nunc et campus et areae lenesque sub noctem susurri composita repetantur hora,

nunc et latentis proditor intimo gratus puellae risus ab angulo pignusque dereptum lacertis aut digito male pertinaci.

Metre, Alcaic.

Odes i. g

9.

NE dazzling mass of solid snow

Soracte stands; the bent woods fret Beneath their load; and, sharpest-set With frost, the streams have ceased to flow.

Pile on great faggots and break up

The ice let influence more benign

:

Enter with four-years-treasured wine,
Fetched in the ponderous Sabine cup :
Leave to the gods all else. When they

Have once bid rest the winds that war
Over the passionate seas, no more
Gray ash and cypress rock and sway.

Ask not what future suns shall bring.
Count to-day gain, whate'er it chance
To be: nor, young man, scorn the dance,
Nor deem sweet Love an idle thing,

Ere Time thy April youth hath changed
To sourness. Park and public walk
Attract thee now, and whispered talk
At twilight meetings pre-arranged;
Hear now the pretty laugh that tells

In what dim corner lurks thy love;
And snatch a bracelet or a glove
From wrist or hand that scarce rebels.

IN

Integer Vitae

neque arcu

NTEGER uitae scelerisque purus
non eget Mauris iaculis
nec uenenatis grauida sagittis,
Fusce, pharetra,

siue per Syrtis iter aestuosas
siue facturus per inhospitalem
Caucasum uel quae loca fabulosus
lambit Hydaspes.

namque me silua lupus in Sabina,
dum meam canto Lalagen et ultra
terminum curis uagor expeditis,
fugit inermem,

quale portentum neque militaris
Daunias latis alit aesculetis
nec Iubae tellus generat, leonum
arida nutrix.

pone me pigris ubi nulla campis
arbor aestiua recreatur aura,

quod latus mundi nebulae malusque Iuppiter urget;

pone sub curru nimium propinqui

solis in terra domibus negata :

dulce ridentem Lalagen amabo,

dulce loquentem.

Metre, Sapphic.

Odes i. 22.