Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. I tossed a-longing to behold the light,
  2. So I might talk wi' thee, and be wi' thee.
  3. But when these wearied limbs from labour free
  4. Were on my couchlet strewn half-dead to lie,
  5. For thee (sweet wag!) this poem for thee wrote I,
  6. Whereby thou mete and weet my cark and care.