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...volunteers bring you 13 different recordings of To Lesbia by Caius Valerius Catullus (translation by Richard Burton.) This was the weekly poetry project for the week of August 5th, 2007....

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...Translations of poems in the European Languages from: Sappho, Catullus, Dante, Petrarch, Goethe, Leopardi, Pushkin, Heine, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Mandelstam, Machado, Akhmatova, Quasimodo, Celan, and Neruda....

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...s literary tribute to human sexuality and eroticism. Written in 24 elegies to emulate classical Roman elegy writers such as Tibullus, Propertius, and Catullus, von Goethe creates a lyrical work of art that has often been subject to censorship. (Summary by Adam E. Maroney)...

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...o follow my course, I have ever deemed that in Poesie, Virgil, Lucretius, Catullus, and Horace, doe doubtles by far hold the first ranke: and especi... ...ly equall neatnesse, continued sweetnesse, and flourishing comelinesse of Catullus his Epigrams, than all the sharpe quips and witty girds wherewith... ... then lowring vexation and drooping melancholy doth? Doe you imagine that Catullus or Saphoes verses delight and please an old covetous chuff-penny ... ...strust mine owne strength to heare with a settled minde some of Horace or Catullus verses sung with a sufficiently well tuned voice, uttered by and ... ...gne's Essays againe, Cæsar descended to write first unto him. And our good Catullus, who under the name of Mamurra had so rudely and bitterly railed ... ...and Ariadne passionate even those that beleeve them not in Virgill nor in Catullus: It is an argument of an obstinate nature and indurate hart, not ... ...om this combination, and bootlesse it is for me to present hir Seneca, or Catullus, or Ladies, or stately dances: if hir companion have the chollick...

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...do and Ariadne, impassionate even those who believe them not in Virgil and Catullus. ’Tis a symptom of an obstinate and obdurate nature to be sensible... ...o wean it from this correspon- dence, to no effect; quote to it Seneca and Catullus, and ladies and royal masques; if its companion have the stone, it... ...75 Montaigne [“Whom the marriage torch has joined with the desired light.”—Catullus, lxiv. 79.] would be loth to serve her husband in quality of a mis... ...akes so much delight in kissing as woman, wishful for every man she sees.”—Catullus, lxvi. 125.] So that if the natural violence of their desire were ... ...d out of doors by the heels, and suffer the punish- ment of thy adultery.”—Catullus, xv. 17.] and the god of our poet, when he surprised one of his co... ... homines componier aequum est.” [“Nor is it fit to compare men with gods.”—Catullus, lxviii. 141.] As to the confusion of children, besides that the g... ... cui pendens sicula beta, Numquam se mediam sustulit ad tunicam,” [Catullus, lxvii. 2, i.—The sense is in the context.] who three or four days... ...s invidit questibus aures;” [“Fortune also refuses ear to our complaints.”—Catullus, lxvii.] for to what friend dare you intrust your griefs, who, if ... ...en our desires are once satisfied, we care little for oaths and promises.”—Catullus, lxiv. 147.] And Thrasonides, a young man of Greece, was so in lov...

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...eviewers, Look, I come to the test, a tiny poem All composed in a metre of Catullus, All in quantity, careful of my motion, Like the skater on ice tha... ...ers. Should I flounder awhile without a tumble Thro’ this metrification of Catullus, They should speak to me not without a welcome, All that chorus of...

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...ngs. Nor was the satirical sharpness or naked plainness of Lucilius, or Catullus, or Flaccus, by any order prohibited. And for matters of state,...

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... ears tingle in deafness; my eyes are 65 Montaigne veiled with darkness.” Catullus, Epig. li. 5] Neither is it in the height and greatest fury of the... ...as florida ver ageret.” [“When my florid age rejoiced in pleasant spring.”—Catullus, lxviii.] In the company of ladies, and at games, some have per- h... ...r is the goddess unknown to me who mixes a sweet bitterness with my love.”—Catullus, lxviii. 17.] is more active, more eager, and more sharp: but with... ... to me than life. Nought remains, but assur- edly I shall ever love thee.”—Catullus, lxviii. 20; lxv.] But let us hear a boy of sixteen speak: —[In Co... ...pass in succession, during their long nights had satiated her eager love.”—Catullus, lxviii. 81.] —to request him of courtesy, to deliver up his priso... ...n entering the nuptial chamber? No, by the Gods, these are no true tears.”—Catullus, lxvi. 15.] 303 Montaigne [“Is Venus really so repugnant to newly... ...f the nuptial chamber. No, so the gods help me, they do not truly grieve.”—Catullus, lxvi. 15.]—[A more literal translation. D.W .] Neither is it stra... ...er impotentia freta.” 341 Montaigne [“Through so many ungovernable seas.”—Catullus, iv. 18.] In so great a siccity of devotion as we see in these day...

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...ature have excited very different expectations: for example, in the age of Catullus Terence and Lucretius, and that of Statius or Claudian, and in our...

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... half his verses show him, Anacreon’s morals are a still worse sample, Catullus scarcely has a decent poem, I don’t think Sappho’s Ode a goo... ...eat Caesar was the suitor, Titus the master, Antony the slave, Horace, Catullus, scholars, Ovid tutor, Sappho the sage blue stocking, in who...

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... Ah! when I am no longer here, I charge you to see that the hedge of which Catullus spoke,—”Ut flos,” etc.,—a protecting hedge is raised between this ...

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...e pro-cadet-corps like anything. Can’t you make up a giddy epigram, a ’ la Catullus, about King objectin’ to it?” Beetle was at this noble task when S...

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...f the glories of the Pitti palace. Modeste,—blossom enclosed, like that of Catullus,— was she worth all these precautions? You have seen the cage; beh...

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...et without noting the number; he devoted January to Petronius, February to Catullus, March to the Etruscan vases perhaps; anyhow he had done good work...

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...h her fortune! What would Horace be without Lydia, Tibullus without Delia, Catullus without Lesbia, Propertius without Cynthia, Demetrius without Lami...

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... to the Lago di Garda to-morrow morning, and fish and shoot, and talk with Catullus.’ The countess gazed on her son with sorrowful sternness. His eyes...

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...ss of this essay, I have always thought that, in poesy, Virgil, Lucretius, Catullus, and Horace by many degrees excel the rest; and signally, Virgil i... ... “O seclum insipiens et inficetum!” [“O stupid and tasteless age.”—Catullus, xliii. 8.] I think the ancients had more reason to be angry with ... ...the equal polish, and that perpetual sweetness and flour- ishing beauty of Catullus’s epigrams, than all the stings with which Martial arms the tails ... ...oy, when you pour out old Falernian wine, the bitterest put into my bowl.”—Catullus, xxvii. I.] and as apples that have a sweet tartness. Nature disco... ...eatly please me which is taken without justice from the unwilling owners”— Catullus, lxviii. 77.] And yet the weakness of our condition often pushes u... ..., Caesar voluntarily persuaded himself to write first to him. And our good Catullus, who had so rudely ruffled him under the name of Mamurra, coming t...

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...writings. Nor was the satirical sharpness or naked plainness of Lucilius, or Catullus, or Flaccus, by any order prohibited. And for matters of state, ...

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...r the Cotes du Rhone. With him 69 V olume Five Sauterne was to Medoc what Catullus was to Homer. He would sport with a syllogism in sipping St. Peray... ... and Andronicus, and Plautus, and Terentius. Then there were Lucilius, and Catullus, and Naso, and Quintus Flaccus,—dear Quinty! as I called him when ...

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...by the popular taste. Was it not the Ancients that began it? Aristophanes, Catullus, Petronius, Martial, flew in the face of decency in their ideas as... ...of that sex feminine! They did begin to flay the man, or peel him (as says Catullus), at that member which of all the body they loved best, to wit, th... ...nd brangled his head, assevered that he was transported and in an ecstasy. Catullus after the same manner maketh mention, in his Berecynthia and Atys,... ... be cheery, and take as much delight in a monkey as ever did the Lesbia of Catullus in her sparrow; who will for his recreation pass his time no less ... ...otimus; Onestus to Timocles; Callimachus to Sopolis, the son of Dioclides; Catullus to his brother; Statius to his father; Germain of Brie to Herve, t... ...t of sir-reverence; and that, too, was full as dry and hard, I protest, as Catullus tells us were those of his neighbour Furius: Nec toto decies caca...

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...dge: Poems To Lesbia ?1794 Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus. Catullus My Lesbia, let us love and live, And to the winds, my Lesbia, g... ...Death of the Starling ?1794 Lugete, O Veneres, Cupidinesque. — Catullus Pity! mourn in plaintive tone The lovely starling dead and gone...

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...e paludis Lividissima, maximeque est profunda vorago. Catullus. xviii. 10. v. 102. With eyes of burning coal.] His loo...

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...rsere feri candenti e gurgite vultus Aequoreae monstrum Nereides admirantes. Catullus, De Nupt. Pel. et Thet . 15. v. 109. Three orbs of triple hu...

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...e paludis Lividissima, maximeque est profunda vorago. Catullus. xviii. 10. v. 102. With eyes of burning coal.] His loo... ...rsere feri candenti e gurgite vultus Aequoreae monstrum Nereides admirantes. Catullus, De Nupt. Pel. et Thet . 15. v. 109. Three orbs of triple hu...

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...ld lecture next week on Catiline’s conspiracy, on Luther, on Evolution, on Catullus. They dealt with so much and they had experienced so little. Was i...

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...ll know the man their neighbour knows. Lord, what would they say Did their Catullus walk that way? 138 THE COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS TOM O’ROUGHL...