Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. In mode becoming souls of dainty strain.
  2. Inditing verses either of us twain
  3. Now in one measure then in other line
  4. We rang the changes amid wit and wine.
  5. Then fared I homewards by thy fun so fired
  6. And by thy jests (Licinius!) so inspired,
  7. Nor food my hapless appetite availed
  8. Nor sleep in quiet rest my eyelids veiled,
  9. But o'er the bedstead wild in furious plight
  10. I tossed a-longing to behold the light,
  11. So I might talk wi' thee, and be wi' thee.