Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Repose and nettle-broth healed all my ills.
  2. Wherefore recruited now best thanks I give
  3. To thee for nowise punishing my sins:
  4. Nor do I now object if noisome writs
  5. Of Sestius hear I, but that cold and cough
  6. And rheum may plague, not me, but Sestius' self
  7. Who asks me only his ill writs to read.
  1. To Acmé quoth Septumius who his fere
  2. Held on his bosom-" Acme', mine! next year,
  3. Unless I love thee fondlier than before,
  4. And with each twelve month love thee more and more,