CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS 3
...CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS 3
Catullus VII: 'How Many Kisses'
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
You ask, Lesbia, how many kisses
are enough, or more than enough, to satisfy me?...
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Categories:
lxx, angst, desire, happiness, love,
Form: Free verse
Sonnets Lxi-Lxx
...Sonnets LXI-LXX
Erin
by Michael R. Burch
All that’s left of Ireland is her hair?
bright carrot?and her milkmaid-pallid skin,
her brilliant air of cavalier despair,
her train of children?s...
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Categories:
lxx, heart, night, spiritual, wife,
Form: Sonnet
If Ever I Had a Country : Lxx - Continued
...IF ever I had a country - LXX
LXX
IF ever I had a country a constant prey to another marauding Bully
And if ever by some impardonable mistake I were the intrepi...
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Categories:
lxx, anti bullying, irony, leadership,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
O Star of My Dark Voyage From Despair
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LXX
Lord in my weaker moments keep me sound
My faith be anchored safe upon the Rock
Whilst storms dash mighty vessels run aground
From jaws of vile leviathan that stalk
Oft tim...
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Categories:
lxx, boat, sea, spiritual, storm,
Form: Sonnet
Longevity Thy Mistress
...Sonnet LXX
Pt i
Let it be known that naissance is of late
significant that this longevity
shall live as long as these words shall donate
Affairs of the heart in their brevity,
Not a thought...
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Categories:
lxx, dedication, life, death, heart,
Form: Sonnet