Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Or climb he lofty Alpine Crest and note
  2. Works monumental, Caesar's grandeur telling,
  3. Rhine Gallic, horrid Ocean and remote
  4. Britons low-dwelling;
  5. All these (whatever shall the will design
  6. Of Heaven-homed Gods) Oh ye prepared to tempt;
  7. Announce your briefest to that damsel mine
  8. In words unkempt :—
  9. Live she and love she wenchers several,
  10. Embrace three hundred wi' the like requitals,