Classic and Contemporary Poetry
VITAS HINNULEO ME SIMILIS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poet's Biography First Line: Why, chloe, like a timid hind Last Line: That thou shouldst own a lover. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Courtship; Fear; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Mothers & Daughters; Male-female Relations | ||||||||
WHY, Chloe, like a timid hind Upon the rugged mountains flying At every motion of the wind Affrighted to its mother hieing, Why dost avoid me? If but the tender branches move Upon the zephyr gently swaying, Should lizard rustle in the grove, Through all thy form, see, terror playing! No lion, I, from Afric's clime; No tiger from the jungle's cover. Leave then thy mother; it is time That thou shouldst own a lover. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MISERY AND SPLENDOR by ROBERT HASS THE APPLE TREES AT OLEMA by ROBERT HASS DOUBLE SONNET by ANTHONY HECHT CONDITIONS XXI by ESSEX HEMPHILL CALIFORNIA SORROW: MOUNTAIN VIEW by MARY KINZIE SUPERBIA: A TRIUMPH WITH NO TRAIN by MARY KINZIE COUNSEL TO UNREASON by LEONIE ADAMS TWENTY QUESTIONS by DAVID LEHMAN EPODE: 2. THE PRAISES OF A COUNTRY LIFE by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS |
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