Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Whom mother bare 'neath olive-tree,
  2. Deep in the Delian dell;
  3. That of the mountains reign thou Queen
  4. And forest ranges ever green,
  5. And coppices by man unseen,
  6. And rivers resonant.
  7. Thou art Lucína, Juno hight
  8. By mothers lien in painful plight,
  9. Thou puissant Trivia and the Light
  10. Bastard, yclept the Lune.
  11. Thou goddess with thy monthly stage,
  12. The yearly march doth mete and guage
  13. An d rustic peasant's messuage,
  14. Dost brim with best o' crops,
  15. Be hailed by whatso name of grace,
  16. Please thee and olden Romulus' race,
  17. Thy wonted favour deign embrace,
  18. And save with choicest aid.
  1. Now to that tender bard, my Comrade fair,
  2. (Cecilius) say I, " Paper go, declare,
  3. Verona must we make and bid to New
  4. Comum's town-walls and Larian Shores adieu;"
  5. For I determined certain fancies he
  6. Accept from mutual friend to him and me.
  7. Wherefore he will, if wise, devour the way,
  8. Though the blonde damsel thousand times essay
  9. Recall his going and with arms a-neck