Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Had not some fulsome work by thee been wrought.
  2. Then what thou holdest, boon or bane be pleased
  3. Disclose! For thee and thy beloved fain would I
  4. Upraise to Heaven with my liveliest lay.
  1. Thou ask'st How many kissing bouts I bore
  2. From thee (my Lesbia!) or be enough or more?
  3. I say what mighty sum of Lybian-sands
  4. Confine Cyrene's Laserpitium-lands
  5. 'Twixt Oracle of Jove the Swelterer
  6. And olden Battus' holy Sepulchre,
  7. Or stars innumerate through night-stillness ken
  8. The stolen Love-delights of mortal men,
  9. For that to kiss thee with unending kisses