Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Nor food my hapless appetite availed
  2. Nor sleep in quiet rest my eyelids veiled,
  3. But o'er the bedstead wild in furious plight
  4. I tossed a-longing to behold the light,
  5. So I might talk wi' thee, and be wi' thee.
  6. But when these wearied limbs from labour free
  7. Were on my couchlet strewn half-dead to lie,