From the Medieval Latin

  • Translated by John Addington Symonds

    LET us live, then, and be glad
      While young life ’s before us!
        After youthful pastime had,
        After old age hard and sad,
      Earth will slumber o’er us.

    Where are they who in this world,
      Ere we...

  • Translated by John Addington Symonds

    LAUREL-CROWNED Horatius,
      True, how true thy saying!
    Swift as wind flies over us
      Time, devouring, slaying.
    Where are, oh! those goblets full
      Of wine honey-laden,
    Strifes and loves and bountiful...