Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. The perfect rule we ne'er shall see
  2. Reach Earth's far bourne; yet such we sight,
  3. Thou willing:—with such Deity
  4. Whoe'er shall dare compare?
  5. Your folds ye gateways wide-ope swing!
  6. The maiden comes. Seest not the sheen
  7. Of links their splendent tresses fling?
  8. Let shame retard the modest mien.
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  11. Who more she hears us weeps the more,
  12. That needs she must advance.
  13. Cease raining tear-drops! not for thee,
  14. Aurunculeia, risk we deem,
  15. That fairer femininety
  16. Clear day outdawned from Ocean stream
  17. Shall ever more behold.
  18. Such in the many-tinted bower
  19. Of rich man's garden passing gay
  20. Upstands the hyacinthine flower.