Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Strands where far-resounding billow rends
  2. The shattered wave,
  3. Or 'mid Hyrcanians dwell he, Arabs soft and wild,
  4. Sacis and Parthians of the arrow fain,
  5. Or where the Seven-mouth'd Nilus mud-defiled
  6. Tinges the Main,
  7. Or climb he lofty Alpine Crest and note
  8. Works monumental, Caesar's grandeur telling,
  9. Rhine Gallic, horrid Ocean and remote
  10. Britons low-dwelling;
  11. All these (whatever shall the will design