Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. And from dried poplar-trunk (0 traveller!) hewn,
  2. This fieldlet, leftwards as thy glances fall,
  3. And my lord's cottage with his pauper garth
  4. Protect, repelling thieves' rapacious hands.
  5. In spring with vari-coloured wreaths I'm crown'd,
  6. In fervid summer with the glowing grain,
  7. Then with green vine-shoot and the luscious bunch,
  8. And glaucous olive-tree in bitter cold.
  9. The dainty she-goat from my pasture bears
  10. Her milk-distended udders to the town:
  11. Out of my sheep-cotes ta'en the fatted lamb
  12. Sends home with silver right-hand heavily charged;
  13. And, while its mother lows, the tender calf
  14. Before the temples of the Gods must bleed.