Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Recall his going and with arms a-neck
  2. A-winding would e'er seek his course to check;
  3. A girl who (if the truth be truly told)
  4. Dies of a hopeless passion uncontroul'd;
  5. For since the doings of the Díndymus-dame,
  6. By himself storied, she hath read, a flame
  7. Wasting her inmost marrow-core hath burned.
  8. I pardon thee, than Sapphic Muse more learn'd,