Talk:Johannes Secundus

Surplus

• Da mihi suaviolum, dicebam, blanda puella;
    libasti labris mox mea labra tuis.
  Inde, velut presso qui territus angue resultat,
    ora repente meo vellis ab ore procul.
  Non hoc suaviolum dare, Lux mea, sed dare tantum
    est desiderium flebile suavioli.
  

• When I asked you for a kiss
    You said "Yes";
  And I felt your lips on mine
    Lightly press
  For a moment: then, as tho'
  You had touched a snake, they go.
  Do you call that thing a kiss,
    Or profess
  That a moment's lingering makes
    A caress?
  Such a kiss can only fan
  Desire in a hungry man.
  • Basia, 3 — Tr. F. A. Wright (1930), p. 45