Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Of greatest Jove descendancy,
  2. Whom mother bare 'neath olive-tree,
  3. Deep in the Delian dell;
  4. That of the mountains reign thou Queen
  5. And forest ranges ever green,
  6. And coppices by man unseen,
  7. And rivers resonant.
  8. Thou art Lucína, Juno hight
  9. By mothers lien in painful plight,
  10. Thou puissant Trivia and the Light
  11. Bastard, yclept the Lune.
  12. Thou goddess with thy monthly stage,
  13. The yearly march doth mete and guage
  14. An d rustic peasant's messuage,
  15. Dost brim with best o' crops,