Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Or climb he lofty Alpine Crest and note
  2. Works monumental, Caesar's grandeur telling,
  3. Rhine Gallic, horrid Ocean and remote
  4. Britons low-dwelling;
  5. All these (whatever shall the will design
  6. Of Heaven-homed Gods) Oh ye prepared to tempt;
  7. Announce your briefest to that damsel mine
  8. In words unkempt :—
  9. Live she and love she wenchers several,
  10. Embrace three hundred wi' the like requitals,
  11. None truly loving and withal of all
  12. Bursting the vitals:
  13. My love regard she not, my love of yore,
  14. Which fell through fault of her, as falls the fair
  15. Last meadow-floret whenas passed it o'er
  16. touch of the share.
  1. Marrúcinus Asinius! ill thou usest
  2. That hand sinistral in thy wit and wine
  3. Filching the napkins of more heedless hosts.
  4. Dost find this funny? Fool it passeth thee