Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Yet amid grief so great to thee, my Hortalus, send I
  2. These strains sung to a mode borrowed from Battiades;
  3. Lest shouldest weet of me thy words, to wandering wind-gusts
  4. Vainly committed, perchance forth of my memory flowed—
  5. As did that apple sent for a furtive giftie by wooer,