Carmina

Catullus

Catullus, Gaius Valerius. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. Burton, Sir Richard Francis, translator. London, Printed for the Translators, 1894.

  1. Furius and Aurelius, Catullus' friends,
  2. Whether extremest Indian shore he brave,
  3. Strands where far-resounding billow rends
  4. The shattered wave,
  5. Or 'mid Hyrcanians dwell he, Arabs soft and wild,
  6. Sacis and Parthians of the arrow fain,
  7. Or where the Seven-mouth'd Nilus mud-defiled
  8. Tinges the Main,
  9. Or climb he lofty Alpine Crest and note
  10. Works monumental, Caesar's grandeur telling,
  11. Rhine Gallic, horrid Ocean and remote
  12. Britons low-dwelling;
  13. All these (whatever shall the will design
  14. Of Heaven-homed Gods) Oh ye prepared to tempt;
  15. Announce your briefest to that damsel mine
  16. In words unkempt :—
  17. Live she and love she wenchers several,
  18. Embrace three hundred wi' the like requitals,
  19. None truly loving and withal of all
  20. Bursting the vitals: