Carmina
Catullus
Catullus, Gaius Valerius. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. Burton, Sir Richard Francis, translator. London, Printed for the Translators, 1894.
- When to me sore opprest by bitter chance of misfortune
- This thy letter thou send'st written wi' blotting of tears,
- So might I save thee flung by spuming billows of ocean,
- Shipwreckt, rescuing life snatcht from the threshold of death;
- Eke neither Venus the Holy to rest in slumber's refreshment
- Grants thee her grace on couch lying deserted and lone,
- Nor can the Muses avail with dulcet song of old writers