Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. And of the cursive' winds require the blow:
  2. All these (Camérius!) couldst on me bestow.
  3. Tho' were I wearied to each marrow bone
  4. And by many o' languors clean forgone
  5. Yet I to seek thee (friend!) would still assay.
  1. Rufa the Bolognese drains Rufule dry,
  2. (Wife to Menenius) she 'mid tombs you'll spy,
  3. The same a-snatching supper from the pyre
  4. Following the bread-loaves rolling forth the fire
  5. Till frapped by half-shaved body-burner's ire.
  1. Bare thee some lioness wild in Lybian wold?
  2. Or Scylla barking from low'st inguinal fold?
  3. With so black spirit, of so dure a mould,
  4. E'en voice of suppliant must thou disregard
  5. In latest circumstance ah, heart o'er hard?