GOLDEN LINE WHAT HAVE I GOTTEN MYSELF INTO?Quantula terribili compono carmina nisu!How small are the poems I’m producing with frightful effort! INSPIRATION IS ALL VERY WELL, BUT… (Elegiac Couplet)“Gramen edit avide mea vacca poemate bello” Sic insignia iners plurima tiro capit “My cow eagerly eats grass in a pretty poem” This is the way a lazy beginner…
Author: Mixie Clerard
Amy
METRICAL HAIKU ERYXCaliginosaeprorsus abit speculaemurus velatus. ERICEThe veiled wallof the mist-covered watchtowerutterly disappears. PHOEBE DORMIENSChryso velatacara puella nitensvelata somno SLEEPING PHOEBEEnveloped in gold,the dear girl shining,enveloped in sleep GOLDEN LINE MICHAEL, CANISLamentabilis afflictos tollit canis artusThe mournful dog lifts his broken limbs. EPIGRAM FONTANASALSAAgro, sermones efflorescunt quasi flores; vina cibumque parat filia regis, era.Latratus catuli, risus…
Aji
METRICAL HAIKU Sic hospites nosvenimus; exiimussic nos amici. Thus we arrivedas strangers; thus we leftas friends. CULEX ICulex, sedebispectore nuncque meaevires bibentur. Mosquito, you willsit on my chest, and now mystrength will be drunk. LOQUAXCommunicat quiiudicium nimiumsic stultior fit. TALKATIVEA person who shareshis opinions too much thusbecomes more stupid. GOLDEN LINE Indomita antiquum pulsabant maria…
Diego
I Book I of the Haiku Epic Nati ad necandumO sumus orbem epiceTerrarum Evander Meter: Metrical Haiku Translation: O Epic Evan we were born to kill the society (earthly globe). II Book II of the Haiku Epic Sibi videriNeminem Evander aitAdesse tristi Meter: Metrical Haiku Translation: Evan says to his sad self that it seems…
Dean
Carl
David
I A new notebook Quo metro incipiam nouum libellum?paruum, aptum his et idoneum diebussit, sed uix tenero notare versutam puros decet aut nocere chartas.formis iam bene uiuimus Catulliuiuamusque igitur bono colore. Metre: Hendecasyllables Translation: In what metre should I begin a new little book? It should be slight, fit and suitable for these days; but…
Gina
Parthenope Quondam Parthenope defixit carmine Ulixen. Squalida me captam et sordida nuper habet. To NapoliParthenope once lured Ulysses with her song.Neglected and poor, she holds me newly captive. Hospiti optimae (in Sapphic stanza) Gratias multas tibi Laura demusprandio pro tam sapido paratonos velimus monte epularum humati subter abesse. To an excellent hostWe owe great thanks to you,…
Christine
Pro Memoria Matris Meae Spectā in terrā me quae nunc sine tē mea materOcto annōs et plūs eris at tū mē sine numquam.Nubifer in caelum nōs mox longē revocābit:“Transfīgūrabō vōs nunc in imagine nostrō.Vōbiscum sīmus simul auraque frater.” Ad Amicam Optimam Quae nostrī generis potest libellumExhaurīre canis carēnsve pōtūs? De Hortis: Opus Didacticum Si melius…
Anthony
To an Old Mare O equa, canitia tenuis quae fessa laborasNoctes atque dies quereris de pondere numquamNec fatum superis dictum altis vertere quaeris.Invida magnopere famae sic esne priorum?Ligneus alter avus stravit (vae!) moenia Troiaeoccultans utero atque tenebris callidum Ulixen.Alterque est factus puero a demente senatoratque foro dein dicere et est hinire coactus.Alter Alexandri Magni virtute…