http://www.icarmina.com [lang_en]Daily poetry. On-the-go.[/lang_en][lang_it]La poesia ogni giorno con te.[/lang_it][lang_la]Poesia cotidiana, semper tecum[/lang_la] Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:19:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here rests Timocritus, valiant in war; Ares spares cowards, not heroes. http://www.icarmina.com/greek-poetry/anacreon/ares-spares-cowards As you have probably noticed, I have no published any new poems for a couple of months. I am sorry but I don't have enough time to choose, translate and comment a poem a day anymore, as I am quite busy with University. So I have decided to show random ... http://www.icarmina.com/blog/admin/random To whom do I dedicate this charming slim volume, just now polished with dry pumice stone? To you Cornelius, for you were accustomed to think that my scribblings were something. When already at the same time, you, only Italian, dared to explain the whole history in three scrolls, learned, by Jupiter, and weighty! Hence have it for ... http://www.icarmina.com/latin-poetry/catullus/to-whom-do-i-dedicate-this-charming-slim-volume Eros shook my soul like the wind attacking trees on a mountain. [translated by Peter Saint-Andre] http://www.icarmina.com/latin-poetry/sappho/eros-shook-my-soul-like Deathless Aphrodite on your lavish throne, Enchantress, daughter of Zeus: I beg you, queen, Do not overpower my soul with heartaches    and hard troubles, But come here, if ever at another time Having heard my voice you paid me attention And leaving the golden house of your father    you came to me, Yoking your horse and chariot: gorgeous ... http://www.icarmina.com/greek-poetry/sappho/deathless-aphrodite You say that the rabbit isn't cooked, and ask for the whip; Rufus, you prefer to carve up your cook than your rabbit. [The best of iCarmina. First published on August 31st] http://www.icarmina.com/latin-poetry/martial/the-rabbit-isnt-cooked I love and yet I do not love I am crazy and I am not crazy http://www.icarmina.com/greek-poetry/anacreon/i-love-and-yet-i-do-not-love Don't seek, my friend, we cannot say what end's in store for you, for me: don't trust in vague astrology. Better to shoulder what will be, whether you soon will die, or stay to watch the shore exhaust the sea. So drink some wine while your hours flee, put small trust in posterity, and prune your hopes -- ... http://www.icarmina.com/latin-poetry/horace/pluck-the-day [lang_la]Nil nimium studeo, Caesar, tibi velle placere, nec scire utrum sis albus an ater homo.[/lang_la] I am not really keen to wish to please you, Caesar, Nor to know whether you are black or white. http://www.icarmina.com/latin-poetry/catullus/i-am-not-really-keen-to-wish-to-please-you-caesar I am a servant of my Lord Ares, but I also know well the lovely gift of the Muses http://www.icarmina.com/greek-poetry/archilochus/i-am-a-servant-of-ares