Carmina

Catullus

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

Heirless, but issue like of kind

Engendered aye should be.

A wee Torquaitus fain I'd see

Encradled on his mother's breast

Put forth his tender puds while he

Smiles to his sire with sweetest gest

And liplets half apart.

Let son like father's semblance show

(Manlius!) so with easy guess

All know him where his sire they know,

And still his face and form express