Latin Poems - Poems about Latin

These are modern English translations by Michael R. Burch of seven Latin poems written by the ancient Roman female poet Sulpicia. V. Reproach for Indifference by Sulpicia loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Have you no kind thoughts for...Read the rest...

These are modern English translations by Michael R. Burch of Latin poems written by the ancient Roman female poetess Sulpicia. I. At Last, Love! by Sulpicia loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch It's come at last! Love! The kind of...Read the rest...

oh crackle fire let flame and quell a sound, this sound upon such spell that cast a tone to ear nearby and changed by cheek and timely sigh along down track and hoof-fall tread at mid of night and wandering...Read the rest...

–For Laura Tandem means finally. Latin wordplay. But here it means mirroring But not. Cloning But not Having a bosom friend, A storm sister, an exit buddy. –From OJ ...Read the rest...

CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS 4 Catullus LXV aka Carmina 65 loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Hortalus, I’m exhausted by relentless grief, and have thus abandoned the learned virgins; nor can my mind, so consumed by malaise, partake of the Muses' mete fruit; for...Read the rest...

Watch your Latin and don't let the cat in Caesar had some jam for tea, Pompei aderat. ille, illa, illud, but I'll have Yorkshire pud. amo, amas, amat Who let in the cat? hic, haec, hoc The mouse ran up the clock. You can...Read the rest...

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? As many as the Libyan sands swirling in incense-bearing Cyrene between the torrid...Read the rest...

CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS 2 Catullus CI: 'His Brother's Burial' translation by Michael R. Burch 1. Through many lands and over many seas I have journeyed, brother, to these wretched rites, to this final acclamation of the dead... and to speak — however ineffectually...Read the rest...

CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS Catullus LXXXV: 'Odi et Amo' loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch 1. I hate. I love. You ask, 'Why not refrain?' I wish I could explain. I can't, but feel the pain. 2. I hate. I love. Why? Heavens above! I wish I could...Read the rest...

Waiting at the window In the upper floor red brick Through glaze oxidized opaquely With grime that has grown thick From eary day she arrives at post The arc begun at easternmost She watches the light progress At noon she dines a...Read the rest...

GILDAS TRANSLATIONS These are modern English translations of Latin poems by the English monk Gildas Sapiens (“Gildas the Wise”). “Alas! The nature of my complaint is the widespread destruction of all that was good, followed by...Read the rest...

Caecilius est in forum eyes closed as he spoke looking as old, ash covered as the language he was teaching clinging on, barely, the class drifting beyond windows and tennis courts what became of Caecilius what became beyond windows...Read the rest...

“pig latin poetry” i’mway away igpay ithway ingsway hey’retay allway ispay utbay iway avehay isngsway...Read the rest...

I love you. And i try to show it in everyway. I've always stuck to my comfort zone. With you i tried something new, Put effort in for you. And when you send you loved me too, Honey you gotta see...Read the rest...

Ancient Roman poets weren’t prudes, the foulest vocabulary they used. They spoke the language of the street unaltered by artifice, much less discreet. The prudish and the ignorant were shocked and waxed indignant though kids today less than ten years would never...Read the rest...