Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. "Give me Came n us, wanton baggages!"
  2. Till answered certain one a-baring breasts
  3. "Lo, 'twixt these rosy paps he haply rests!"
  4. But now to find thee were Herculean feat.
  5. Not if I feigned me that guard of Crete,
  6. Not if with Pegasèan wing I sped,
  7. Or Ladas I or Perseus plumiped,
  8. Or Rhesus borne in swifty car snow-white:
  9. Add the twain foot-bewing'd and fast of flight,
  10. And of the cursive' winds require the blow: