Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Not sole of starvelings now, but wretches who
  2. Were, are, or shall be in the years to come,
  3. My love, my dearling, fain art thou to strum.
  4. Nor privately; for nigh thou com'st and jestest
  5. And to his side close-sticking all things questest.
  6. 'Tis vain: while lay'st thou snares for me the worst,
  7. By . . . . I will teach thee first.
  8. An food-full thus do thou, my peace I'd keep:
  9. But what (ah me ! ah me !) compels me weep
  10. Are thirst and famine to my dearling fated.