Another elegiacal pursuit
Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:06 pm
This morning I woke up and read (again) Ovid's Pyramus & Thisbe. So inspired was I that I took up the quill and myself did arm with rhythm, quality vocalic, elision, and a meal to break the fast. Thus armed, I wrote..
--Tenuis Rima--
Pluuit; plorat caelum pro scelere urbi et amore
Amisso, Impleto. Lacrimat liberiter
Sanguinem lacrima mortalem ex manibus mihi tollit
Caelestis. Gladio te comitar, mea mel.
The rain in the first line is due to the fact that it was raining here at my house as i wrote this piece (... a piece it may be).
I could use all the help/comments/ridicule i can get, as I'm still an infans with respect to latin (and latin poetry in particular ), though perhaps not so infans as i was before.
-Jon
[edit]
in the last line ... Gladio te comito, mea mel. is what it should be methinks.
--Tenuis Rima--
Pluuit; plorat caelum pro scelere urbi et amore
Amisso, Impleto. Lacrimat liberiter
Sanguinem lacrima mortalem ex manibus mihi tollit
Caelestis. Gladio te comitar, mea mel.
The rain in the first line is due to the fact that it was raining here at my house as i wrote this piece (... a piece it may be).
I could use all the help/comments/ridicule i can get, as I'm still an infans with respect to latin (and latin poetry in particular ), though perhaps not so infans as i was before.
-Jon
[edit]
in the last line ... Gladio te comito, mea mel. is what it should be methinks.