Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DIANAE MUNUSCULUM, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poet's Biography First Line: Hear the choir of boy and maid Last Line: Take the incense of our love. Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius | ||||||||
HEAR the choir of boy and maid, Mighty child of mightiest Jove, Thou whom royal mother laid In the Delian olive grove -- That thou mightest be the lady Of all woods that bud in spring, Of all glades remote and shady, Of all rivers echoing. Thou wert cradled 'mid the seas, Guarded was thine infant state With the glistening Cyclades, With the wave inviolate -- That thou mightest be the warden Of all holy loves and pure, When, as in a fenced garden, Chaste affections bloom secure. Hear the choir of boy and maid, Mighty child of mightiest Jove: Take the wreath before thee laid, Take the incense of our love. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONNET: 13. OUT OF CATALLUS by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS VOLPONE: TO CELIA by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS CARMINA: 31 by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS CARMINA: 69: TO RUFUS by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS CARMINA, 70: FEMALE INCONSTANCY by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS CARMINA: 72 by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS CARMINA: 85 by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS CARMINA: 75 by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS CARMINA: 85 by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS CARMINA: 4. THE YACHT by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS |
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