TRIOLET, AFTER CATULLUS.
"Jucundum, mea vita."
Happy, my Life, the love you proffer,
Eternal as the gods above;
With such a wealth within my coffer,
Happy my life. The love you proffer,—
If your true heart sustains the offer,-
Will prove the Koh-i-noor of love;
Happy my life! The love you proffer,
Eternal as the gods above!
Edmund Gosse.
Easy is the Triolet,
If you really learn to make it!
Once a neat refrain you get,
Easy is the Triolet.
As you see!-I pay my debt
With another rhyme. Deuce take it,
Easy is the Triolet,
If you really learn to make it!
W. E. Henley.
Out from the leaves of my "Lucille"
Falls a faded violet.
Sweet and faint as its fragrance, steal
Out from the leaves of my "Lucille"
Tender memories, and I feel
A sense of longing and regret.
Out from the leaves of my "Lucille"
Falls a faded violet.
Walter Learned.