Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Plunderings impious, poison-brewin'
  2. Or other parlous case forlorn.
  3. Your frames are hard and dried like horn,
  4. Or if more arid aught ye know
  5. By suns and frosts and hunger-throe.
  6. Then why not happy as thou'rt hale?
  7. Sweat's strange to thee, spit fails, and fail