Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Were on my couchlet strewn half-dead to lie,
  2. For thee (sweet wag!) this poem for thee wrote I,
  3. Whereby thou mete and weet my cark and care.
  4. Now be not over-bold, nor this our prayer
  5. Outspit thou (apple of mine eyes !): we pray
  6. Lest doom thee Nemesis hard pain repay :—
  7. She's a dire Goddess, 'ware thou cross her way.