Love

Quinti Catuli

by Richard Lovelace 1617–1657

Translated by Richard Lovelace (1659) · From Lucasta: Posthume Poems (1659)

Love

As once I bad good morning to the day,
O' th' sudden Roscius breaks in a bright ray:
Gods with your favour, I've presum'd to see
A mortal fairer then a deitie.
With looks and hands a satyre courts the boy,
Who draws back his unwilling cheek as coy.
Although of marble hewn, whom move not they?
The boy ev'n seems to weep, the satyre, pray.

MLA

Lovelace, Richard. “Quinti Catuli.” Translated by Richard Lovelace. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lovelace/125/.

Chicago

Lovelace, Richard. “Quinti Catuli.” Translated by Richard Lovelace. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lovelace/125/.

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