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| Author | Message | | | Posted on Mon Nov 29, 2004 19:41:45 | |
| | I'm trying to find a poem that I believe begins with:
"Come and let us live my dear / let us love and never fear."
If anyone has any ideas, i'd appreciate it!
Thanks... | |
| | | Posted at Thu Dec 09, 2004 03:38:32 | Quote |
| | | I think you were thinking of Catullus 5 where the English translation would be something along the lines of "Let us live and let us love, my Lesbia". | |
| | | Posted at Tue Aug 14, 2007 21:34:47 | Quote |
| | Come and let us live my Deare,
Let us love and never feare,
What the sowrest Fathers say:
Brightest Sol that dyes to day
Lives againe as blith to morrow,
But if we darke sons of sorrow
Set, then, how long a Night
Shuts the Eyes of our short light!
Then let amorous kisses dwell
On our lips, begin and tell
A Thousand, and a Hundred, score
an Hundred, and a Thousand more,
Till another Thousand smother
That, and that wipe off another.
Thus at last when we have numbered
Many a Thousand, many a Hundred;
Wee'l confound the reckoning quite,
And lose our selves in wild delight:
While our joyes so multiply,
As shall mocke the envious eye.
RICHARD CRASHAW (1612/3 - 1649)
I hope this is it :) | |
| | | Posted at Thu Nov 08, 2007 07:19:33 | Quote |
| | | Quote: | | | | | Come and let us live my Deare,
Let us love and never feare,
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RICHARD CRASHAW (1612/3 - 1649)
I hope this is it :) |
A very, very liberal translation of Catullus 5. | |
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