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...
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.
bird sparrows birdsong
Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
death dark path
Who now travels that dark path from whose bourne they say no one returns. [Lat., Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum Illue unde negant redire quemquam.]
laugh laughter silly
There is nothing sillier than a silly laugh