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Poesis Latina Hodierna - Brad Walton

Brad Walton is a living poet. In this recording he reads from his translation into Latin of "Bury me not on the Lone Prairie", Epitaphium Armentarii which was recorded over the phone. Brad is a resident of Toronto. The texts of more of his poems may be found here:
http://www.suberic.net/~marc/latinpoetry.html

Epitaphium Armentarii

Epitaphium Armentarii

"Corpora deserti ne sumant aequora campi!"
edita erat tenui maesta loquela sono.
nam iuvenis tristi quaerens postrema cubili,
iam moriente die mortis adibat iter.
"corpora deserti ne sumant aequora campi,
sub strepitu venti, quo canis exululat.
parcite vos gelidis artus componere bustis,
avia ne teneant aequora reliquias!
corpus deserti...." fugit vox, nec tamen ulla
cura fuit nobis ultima vota sequi.
exanima angusto tumulavimus ossa sepulchro:
vasta tenent miseras aequora reliquias.


Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie

"O bury me not on the lone prairie"
These words came low and mournfully
From the pallid lips of the youth who lay
On his dying be at the close of day.


"O bury me not on the lone prairie
Where the wild coyote will howl o'er me
Where the buffalo roams the prairie sea
O bury me not on the lone prairie"

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Poesis Latina Hodierna - Brad Walton - Bella Placentarum

Brad Walton is a living poet. In this recording he reads from Bella Placentarum, which was recorded over the phone. Brad is a resident of Toronto. The texts of more of his poems may be found here:
http://www.suberic.net/~marc/latinpoetry.html


Bella Placentarum

Crebro supplicum tulit
virtus, nec tenuit promeritis furor
diras invidiae manus.
o Gustave, cave! nam teneri ferox
Warreni recipit soror
adiuratque abaci vasa per omnia
cocturum neminem suae
pingui caseolo saeva placentulae
ah! praestantia crustula.
at nunc fama vagans tinnit in auribus
concocti tibi frustuli,
quod cremore potens atque olearia
exundans opulentia
multos ambrosiam commonuit deum.
quare bellipotens vovet
aut palmas virides, Martia praemia,
aut ingloria funera.
retractis manicis exue bracchia.
haud mitem iuvenilibus
cedet nympha flagrans viribus exitum.

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Poesis Latina Hodierna - Brad Walton - Lamentatio Magi

Brad Walton is a living poet. In this recording he reads from Lamentatio Magi, which was recorded over the phone. Brad is a resident of Toronto. The texts of more of his poems may be found here:
http://www.suberic.net/~marc/latinpoetry.html


Lamentatio Magi
Heu ferrumine calcis atque harenae
priscae clauditur arboris foramen,
umbrosis aditus quod inferorum
silvis exhibuit, quod et iuvantes
5 fessum duxit ad astures, leaenas,
noctuas, lepores, lupos, viverras,
et salutiferos dedit dracones.
quare, faticini, valete amici!
terrarum valeat paternus orbis.
10 obstructo veteris loco meatus,
deflenti novus est mihi petendus.

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Poesis Latina Hodierna - Brad Walton

Brad Walton is a living poet. In this recording he reads from his translation into Latin of Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter, which was recorded over the phone. Brad is a resident of Toronto. The texts of more of his poems may be found here:
http://www.suberic.net/~marc/latinpoetry.html



John Crowe Ransom: Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter

Corporis parvi properante gressu
et fuga plantae choreas agentis
funebris notae stupefecit omnes
arca puellae.

quae suo celsas resonavit aulas
Marte, et extremo latitans vireto
intulit bellum propriamque tela
torsit in umbram.

languidos glaucae pepulit lacunae
anseres, fusas viridi nivosum,
cum legunt auras, onus exuentes
caespite nubes.

"pro" reclamarunt, "dolor!" anserine
"pellit invicta furibunda virga
mellei sub sole flagrante amoena
somnia pomi."

aes sonat. cedit generosa pompa.
sanguinis iuncti veneramur agmen
et verecundos taciti sepulcri
flemus honores.

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Poesis Latina Hodierna - Bradlio Waltonio - Divini Affectus

Brad Walton is a living poet. In this recording he reads from his poem Divini Affectus, which was recorded over the phone. Brad is a resident of Toronto. The texts of more of his poems may be found here:
http://www.suberic.net/~marc/latinpoetry.html


Divini Affectus


Odit amatque deus, bonitate redundat et ira:
haec scriptura refert, testis et usus adest.
affectus sed uter statuet mortalia fata?
divum postremo pectus habebit uter?
primus amor fuerat, fueritque amor ultimus. omnes
ingenii motus urget et explet amor.
si deus odit, amor fons est et finis, amandi
et repetet formas ortus amando furor.

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Poesis Latina Hodierna - Bradlio Waltonio - Facta Illustria

Brad Walton is a living poet. In this recording he reads from his poem Facta Illustria, which was recorded over the phone. Brad is a resident of Toronto. The texts of more of his poems may be found here:
http://www.suberic.net/~marc/latinpoetry.html

Facta Illustria

Errabat, mihi qui tumente verbo
dixit splendida cuncta quae fuere,
quae famam meruere sempiternam,
nisu praecipue effici molesto,
sudore immodico, fluente fletu,
necnon plurima computante mente.
namque, ut nunc scio, magna quae putantur,
fiunt praecipue incitante amore.