Gaius Valerius Catullus lived and died in the first century BC (1987-1954 BC), contemporary of Caesar and Pompey, Catullus was a young man sweeping, with sharp and obscene verses, but also extremely sensitive. Revolutionized Latin love poetry and gave his reason for being. As you can see by the dates, it is estimated that died very young, perhaps about 30 years.
This wonderful poem that follows is devoted to Lesbia, Clodia pseudonym, Patricia Roman married and forming the cream of Roman society, which maintained relations with the emotional / sexual ended in heartbreak and abandonment by both parties. His poems, very short, wonderful, are often foul-mouthed and vociferous (this is not the case.) Catullus himself said he was not writing for Puritans.
The poem that follows belongs to the first part, which Lesbia's love fills everything. I think they wonderful verses. What about you / as?
Enjoy.
us live, my dear Lesbia, and let us love,
and gossip from the old Puritan
all we care a damn.
Suns may rise and set;
us as soon end our brief life,
have to live a night without end.
Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred,
a thousand, then another hundred,
after two thousand, then again a hundred;
then when we come to many thousands, lose the
account ignore and that no evil can harm us,
when he finds the total of our kisses.
(Translated by A. Ramirez de Ver ger; Catulo, poema nº 5)
El original:
Vivamus mea Lesbia, atque amemus,
rumoresque
senum severiorum
omnes unius aestimemus assis!.
Soles occidere et redire possunt:
nobis cum semel
occidit brevis lux,
nox est perpetua una dormienda.
Da mi basia mille, deinde centum,
dein mille altera,
dein secunda centum,
deinde usque altera mille,
deinde centum.
Dein, cum milia
multa fecerimus,
conturbabimus illa,
ne sciamus,
aut ne quis malus invidere possit,
cum tantum sciat esse basiorum. 
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