Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. So I might talk wi' thee, and be wi' thee.
  2. But when these wearied limbs from labour free
  3. Were on my couchlet strewn half-dead to lie,
  4. For thee (sweet wag!) this poem for thee wrote I,
  5. Whereby thou mete and weet my cark and care.
  6. Now be not over-bold, nor this our prayer
  7. Outspit thou (apple of mine eyes !): we pray
  8. Lest doom thee Nemesis hard pain repay :—