Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. For thee (sweet wag!) this poem for thee wrote I,
  2. Whereby thou mete and weet my cark and care.
  3. Now be not over-bold, nor this our prayer
  4. Outspit thou (apple of mine eyes !): we pray
  5. Lest doom thee Nemesis hard pain repay :—
  6. She's a dire Goddess, 'ware thou cross her way.
  1. Peer of a God meseemeth he,
  2. Nay passing Gods (and that can be!)