Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. For thee I pestered all with many pleas—
  2. "Give me Came n us, wanton baggages!"
  3. Till answered certain one a-baring breasts
  4. "Lo, 'twixt these rosy paps he haply rests!"
  5. But now to find thee were Herculean feat.
  6. Not if I feigned me that guard of Crete,
  7. Not if with Pegasèan wing I sped,
  8. Or Ladas I or Perseus plumiped,
  9. Or Rhesus borne in swifty car snow-white:
  10. Add the twain foot-bewing'd and fast of flight,
  11. And of the cursive' winds require the blow:
  12. All these (Camérius!) couldst on me bestow.