Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Youths whole of heart and maidens fair,
  2. Let boys no blemishes impair,
  3. And girls of Dian sing!
  4. O great Latonian progeny,
  5. Of greatest Jove descendancy,
  6. Whom mother bare 'neath olive-tree,
  7. Deep in the Delian dell;
  8. That of the mountains reign thou Queen
  9. And forest ranges ever green,
  10. And coppices by man unseen,
  11. And rivers resonant.
  12. Thou art Lucína, Juno hight
  13. By mothers lien in painful plight,