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Love?



O mistress mine, where are you roaming?
O, stay and hear! your true-love?s coming,
That can sing both high and low.
Trip no further, pretty sweeting;
Journeys end in lovers meeting,
Every wise man?s son doth know.

What is love? ?Tis not hereafter;
Present mirth hath present laughter;
What?s to come is still unsure:
In delay there lies no plenty;
Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty,
Youth?s a stuff will not endure.

Twelfth Night, II: 3

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero. . .
 

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Login to find out (February 7, 2006 at 9:11am)
*swoons*
 
Login to find out (February 7, 2006 at 7:59am)
thats true,,,

my uncle writes a lot of poetry his so good at it too, its all about life, love, women, beauty, nature, GOD, kings, punishments,,,, in fact he writes so much that on his borthday i buy him a pen and that lasts only a few weeks!!!
 
Login to find out (February 6, 2006 at 12:13pm)
i have just been told by my know-it-all friend (a classics graduate dont-you-know) that this is a better translation: seize today, don't put much credit in tomorrow.
 
Login to find out (February 6, 2006 at 12:12pm)
Ah! Postero is 'tomorrow'. Fab line, I'll have that away...
 
Login to find out (February 6, 2006 at 12:10pm)
It's from one of Horace's odes ---

"Sapias, vina liques, et spatio brevi spem longam reseces. dum loquimur, fugerit invida aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero."

"Be wise, strain the wine; and since life is brief, prune back far-reaching hopes. Even while we speak, envious time has passed: Snatch the day; trust as little as possible in tomorrow."
 
Login to find out (February 6, 2006 at 11:56am)
lol.. very romantic 'little truth on my ass'...
 
Login to find out (February 6, 2006 at 11:49am)
OK, translate the Latin! I get seize the day but what's the bit after that? Something like: Less true after the fact? Little truth on my ass? What?
 
Login to find out (February 6, 2006 at 11:40am)
NICE,,,, VERY NICE,,,, I LOVE POEMS!!!!!!!!