Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Yet were such things whilome: now she retired
  2. In quiet age devotes herself to thee
  3. (0 twin-born Castor) twain with Castor's twin.
  1. Love we (my Lesbia!) and live we our day,
  2. While all stern sayings crabbed sages say,
  3. At one doit's value let us price and prize!
  4. The Suns can westward sink again to rise
  5. But we, extinguished once our tiny light,
  6. Perforce shall slumber through one lasting night!
  7. Kiss me a thousand times, then hundred more,
  8. Then thousand others, then a new five-score,
  9. Still other thousand other hundred store.
  10. Last when the sums to many thousands grow,
  11. The tale let's trouble till no more we know,