Carmina
Catullus
Catullus, Gaius Valerius. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. Burton, Sir Richard Francis, translator. London, Printed for the Translators, 1894.
- Albeit care that consumes, with dule assiduous grieving,
- Me from the Learnèd Maids (Hortalus!) ever seclude,
- Nor can avail sweet births of the Muses thou to deliver
- Thought o' my mind; (so much floats it on flooding of ills:
- For that the Lethe-wave upsurging of late from abysses,
- Lavèd my brother's foot, paling with pallor of death,
- He whom the Trojan soil, Rhoetean shore underlying,
- Buries for ever and aye, forcibly snatched from our sight.
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- I can address; no more shall I hear thee tell of thy doings,