Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. The boor, and plucking forth with bended arm
  2. Makes of this tool a club for doughty hand.
  1. Aurelius, father of the famisht crew,
  2. Not sole of starvelings now, but wretches who
  3. Were, are, or shall be in the years to come,
  4. My love, my dearling, fain art thou to strum.
  5. Nor privately; for nigh thou com'st and jestest