Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Of Sestius hear I, but that cold and cough
  2. And rheum may plague, not me, but Sestius' self
  3. 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,
  5. As much as lover's life can slay with yearning,
  6. Alone in Lybia, or Hind's clime a-burning,
  7. Be mine to encounter Lion grisly-eyed!"
  8. While he was speaking Love on leftward side
  9. (As wont) approving sneeze from dextral sped.
  10. But Acmé backwards gently bending head,
  11. And the love-drunken eyes of her sweet boy