Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Let boys no blemishes impair,
  2. And girls of Dian sing!
  3. O great Latonian progeny,
  4. Of greatest Jove descendancy,
  5. Whom mother bare 'neath olive-tree,
  6. Deep in the Delian dell;
  7. That of the mountains reign thou Queen
  8. And forest ranges ever green,
  9. And coppices by man unseen,
  10. And rivers resonant.
  11. Thou art Lucína, Juno hight
  12. By mothers lien in painful plight,
  13. Thou puissant Trivia and the Light
  14. Bastard, yclept the Lune.
  15. Thou goddess with thy monthly stage,
  16. The yearly march doth mete and guage
  17. An d rustic peasant's messuage,
  18. Dost brim with best o' crops,
  19. Be hailed by whatso name of grace,
  20. Please thee and olden Romulus' race,