Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Suffers her sport as she please nor rates her even at hair's worth,
  2. Nowise 'stirring himself, but lying log-like as alder
  3. Felled and o'er floating the fosse of safe Ligurian woodsman,
  4. Feeling withal, as though such spouse he never had own'd;
  5. So this marvel o' mine sees naught, and nothing can hear he,
  6. What he himself, an he be or not be, wholly unknowing.
  7. Now would I willingly pitch such wight head first fro' thy bridge,
  8. Better a-sudden t'arouse that numskull's stolid old senses,