Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Who all the while sits facing thee
  2. Sees thee and hears
  3. Thy low sweet laughs which (ah me!) daze
  4. Mine every sense, and as I gaze
  5. Upon thee (Lesbia!) o'er me strays
  6. ---
  7. My tongue is dulled, my limbs adown
  8. Flows subtle flame; with sound its own
  9. Rings either ear, and o'er are strown
  10. Mine eyes with night.
  11. Ease has thy lot, Catullus, crost,
  12. Ease gladdens thee at heaviest cost,
  13. Ease killed the Kings ere this and lost the tallest towns
  1. What is't, Catullus? Why delay to out die?
  2. That Wen hight Nonius sits in curule chair,