Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. No doit thou car'st? O Mire! O Stuff O' stews!
  2. Or if aught fouler filthier dirt there be.
  3. Yet must we never think these words suffice.
  4. But if naught else avail, at least a blush
  5. Forth of that bitch-like brazen brow we'll squeeze.
  6. Cry all together in a higher key
  7. "Restore (O rotten whore!) our noting books,