Glycera Rediviva!

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Title:     Glycera Rediviva!
Author: Franklin P. Adams [More Titles by Adams]

Horace: Book I, Ode 19

"Mater saeva Cupidinum"

Venus, the cruel mother of
The Cupids (symbolising Love),
Bids me to muse upon and sigh
For things to which I've said "Good-bye!"

Believe me or believe me not,
I give this Glycera girl a lot:
Pure Parian marble are her arms--
And she has eighty other charms.

Venus has left her Cyprus home
And will not let me pull a pome
About the Parthians, fierce and rough,
The Scythian war, and all that stuff.

Set up, O slaves, a verdant shrine!
Uncork a quart of last year's wine!
Place incense here, and here verbenas,
And watch me while I jolly Venus!

[The end]
Franklin P. Adams's poem: Glycera Rediviva!

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