Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. A girl who (if the truth be truly told)
  2. Dies of a hopeless passion uncontroul'd;
  3. For since the doings of the Díndymus-dame,
  4. By himself storied, she hath read, a flame
  5. Wasting her inmost marrow-core hath burned.
  6. I pardon thee, than Sapphic Muse more learn'd,
  7. Damsel : for truly sung in sweetest lays
  8. Was by Cecilius Magna Mater's praise.