Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Nor to the sea-shore gods was aught of vow
  2. By her deemed needful, when from Ocean's bourne
  3. Extreme she voyaged for this limpid lake.
  4. Yet were such things whilome: now she retired
  5. In quiet age devotes herself to thee
  6. (0 twin-born Castor) twain with Castor's twin.
  1. Love we (my Lesbia!) and live we our day,
  2. While all stern sayings crabbed sages say,