Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Thou bardache Thallus! more than Coney's robe
  2. Soft, or goose-marrow or ear's lowmost lobe,
  3. Or Age's languid yard and cobweb'd part,
  4. Same Thallus greedier than the gale thou art,
  5. When the Kite-goddess shows thee Gulls agape,
  6. Return my muffler thou hast dared to rape,
  7. Saetaban napkins, tablets of Thynos, all
  8. Which (Fool!) ancestral heirlooms thou didst call.
  9. These now unglueing from thy claws restore,
  10. Lest thy soft hands, and floss-like flanklets score
  11. The burning scourges, basely signed and lined,
  12. And thou unwonted toss like wee barque tyned
  13. 'Mid vasty Ocean vexed by madding wind!