Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Certain a townsman mine I'd lief see thrown from thy gangway
  2. Hurlèd head over heels precipitous whelmed in the quagmire,
  3. Where the lake and the boglands are most rotten and stinking,
  4. Deepest and lividest lie, the swallow of hollow voracious.
  5. Witless surely the wight whose sense is less than of boy-babe
  6. Two-year-old and a-sleep on trembling forearm of father.
  7. He though, wedded to girl in greenest bloom of her youth-tide,
  8. (Bride-wife daintier bred than ever was delicate kidlet,
  9. Worthier diligent watch than grape-bunch blackest and ripest)
  10. Suffers her sport as she please nor rates her even at hair's worth,
  11. Nowise 'stirring himself, but lying log-like as alder
  12. Felled and o'er floating the fosse of safe Ligurian woodsman,
  13. Feeling withal, as though such spouse he never had own'd;