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The Latin Poems

Memoriae Matris Sacrum & Musae Responsoriae

George Herbert·1620–1631·from the Latin

A full modern English translation of the work — two books, 57 chapters — translated sentence by sentence from the Latin, with scripture echoes traced and brief notes on the harder turns of phrase. Choose a chapter to begin reading.

57 chapters301 sentences0 scripture echoes
Devotional manualContemplatio — The Ascent
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Memoriae Matris Sacrum

Memoriae Matris Sacrum

  1. 1.1Ah Mater, quo te deplorem fonte
  2. 1.2Corneliae sanctae, graves Semproniae
  3. 1.3Cur splendes, o Phoebe
  4. 1.4Quid nugor calamo favens
  5. 1.5Horti, deliciae Dominae
  6. 1.6Galene, frustra es
  7. 1.7Pallida materni Genii
  8. 1.8Parvam piamque dum lubenter semitam
  9. 1.9Hoc, Genitrix, scriptum proles tibi sedula mittit
  10. 1.10Nempe huc usque notos tenebricosos
  11. 1.11Dum librata suis haeret radicibus ilex
  12. 1.12Facesse Stoica plebs
  13. 1.13Epitaphium (Hic sita foeminei laus)
  14. 1.14Excussos manibus calamos
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Musae Responsoriae

Musae Responsoriae

  1. 2.1Ad Regem [Augustissimo Monarchae Jacobo]
  2. 2.2Ad Carolum, Walliae et Juventutis Principem
  3. 2.3Reverendissimo Episcopo Wintoniensi
  4. 2.4Instituti Epigrammatici Ratio (Epigr. I)
  5. 2.5Ad Melvinum (Epigr. II)
  6. 2.6In Monstrum Vocabuli Anti-Tami-Cami-Categoria (Epigr. III)
  7. 2.7Partitio Anti-Tami-Cami-Categoriae (Epigr. IV)
  8. 2.8In Metri Genus (Epigr. V)
  9. 2.9De Larvata Gorgone (Epigr. VI)
  10. 2.10De Praesulum Fastu (Epigr. VII)
  11. 2.11De Gemina Academia (Epigr. VIII)
  12. 2.12De S. Baptismi Ritu (Epigr. IX)
  13. 2.13De Signaculo Crucis (Epigr. X)
  14. 2.14De Juramento Ecclesiae (Epigr. XI)
  15. 2.15De Purificatione post Puerperium (Epigr. XII)
  16. 2.16De Antichristi Decore Pontificali (Epigr. XIII)
  17. 2.17De Superpelliceo (Epigr. XIV)
  18. 2.18De Pileo Quadrato (Epigr. XV)
  19. 2.19In Catharum (Epigr. XVI)
  20. 2.20De Episcopis (Epigr. XVII)
  21. 2.21De Iisdem, ad Melvinum (Epigr. XVIII)
  22. 2.22De Textore Catharo (Epigr. XIX)
  23. 2.23De Magicis Rotatibus (Epigr. XX)
  24. 2.24Ad Fratres (Epigr. XXI)
  25. 2.25De Labe Maculisque (Epigr. XXII)
  26. 2.26De Musica Sacra (Epigr. XXIII)
  27. 2.27De Eadem (Epigr. XXIV)
  28. 2.28De Rituum Usu (Epigr. XXV)
  29. 2.29De Annulo Conjugali (Epigr. XXVI)
  30. 2.30De Mundis et Mundanis (Epigr. XXVII)
  31. 2.31De Oratione Dominica (Epigr. XXVIII)
  32. 2.32In Catharum Quendam (Epigr. XXIX)
  33. 2.33De Lupa Lustri Vaticani (Epigr. XXX)
  34. 2.34De Impositione Manuum (Epigr. XXXI)
  35. 2.35Supplicum Ministrorum Raptus (Epigr. XXXII)
  36. 2.36De Auctorum Enumeratione (Epigr. XXXIII)
  37. 2.37De Auri Sacra Fame (Epigr. XXXIV)
  38. 2.38Ad Scotiam Protrepticon ad Pacem (Epigr. XXXV)
  39. 2.39Ad Seductos Innocentes (Epigr. XXXVI)
  40. 2.40Ad Melvinum (Epigr. XXXVII)
  41. 2.41Ad Eundem (Epigr. XXXVIII)
  42. 2.42Ad Serenissimum Regem (Epigr. XXXIX)
  43. 2.43Ad Deum (Epigr. XL)