Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. From folk I say not: naught affray
  2. The crowds wont here and there to run
  3. Through street-squares, busied every one;
  4. But thee I dread nor less thy penis
  5. Fair or foul, younglings' foe I ween is!
  6. Wag it as wish thou, at its will,
  7. When out of doors its hope fulfil;
  8. Him bar I, modestly, methinks.
  9. But should ill-mind or lust's high jinks
  10. Thee (Sinner!), drive to sin so dread,
  11. That durst ensnare our dearling's head,