Carmina
Catullus
Catullus, Gaius Valerius. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. Burton, Sir Richard Francis, translator. London, Printed for the Translators, 1894.
- Love we (my Lesbia!) and live we our day,
- While all stern sayings crabbed sages say,
- At one doit's value let us price and prize!
- The Suns can westward sink again to rise
- But we, extinguished once our tiny light,
- Perforce shall slumber through one lasting night!
- Kiss me a thousand times, then hundred more,