Horace: Book I, Ode 19 <br /> <br />"Mater sæva Cupidinum" <br /> <br /> <br />Venus, the cruel mother of <br />The Cupids (symbolising Love), <br />Bids me to muse upon and sigh <br />For things to which I've said "Good-bye!" <br /> <br />Believe me or believe me not, <br />I give this Glycera girl a lot: <br />Pure Parian marble are her arms-- <br />And she has eighty other charms. <br /> <br />Venus has left her Cyprus home <br />And will not let me pull a pome <br />About the Parthians, fierce and rough, <br />The Scythian war, and all that stuff. <br /> <br />Set up, O slaves, a verdant shrine! <br />Uncork a quart of last year's wine! <br />Place incense here, and here verbenas, <br />And watch me while I jolly Venus!<br /><br />Franklin P. Adams<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/glycera-rediviva/
