Risit et Ver me, facilesque Nymphæ Manè quicquid de violis eundo Surripit aura: 20 Me reclinatum teneram per herbam ; Nectit in omni. Hæ novo nostrum ferè pectus anno Purior hora: Otia et campos nec adhuc relinquo, Mollior æstas.) Namque, seu, lætos hominum labores Purpurâ tractus oriens Eoos Vestit, et auro ; Sedulus servo veneratus orbem 25 30 35 Pingere Calpen; 40 Usque dum, fulgore magis magis jam Scena recessit. O ego felix, vice si (nec unquam Fallere Letho! Multa flagranti radiisque cincto Sentit Olympus. 45 50 ALCAIC FRAGMENT. O LACRYMARUM fons, tenero sacros LATIN LINES; ADDRESSED TO MR. WEST, FROM GENOA. HORRIDOS tractus, Boreæque linquens Regna Taurini fera, molliorem Advehor brumam, Genuæque amantes Litora soles. ELEGIAC VERSES, OCCASIONED BY THE SIGHT OF THE PLAINS WHERE THE BATTLE OF TREBIA WAS FOUGHT. QUA Trebie glaucas salices intersecat undâ, CARMEN AD C. FAVONIUM ZEPHYRINUM. (Enclosed to Mr. West, after a visit to Frascati, and the cascades of Tivoli.) MATER rosarum, cui teneræ vigent Et volucrum celebrata cantu! Dormire plectrum, seu retentat Pierio Zephyrinus antro Furore dulci plenus, et immemor Reptantis inter frigora Tusculi Umbrosa, vel colles Amici Palladiæ superantis Albæ. Dilecta Fauno, et capripedum choris Pineta, testor vos, Anio minax Quæcunque per clivos volutus Præcipiti tremefecit amne, Illius altum Tibur, et Æsulæ 5 10 15 |