Carmina

Catullus

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

  • O Hymen Hymenaeus io,
  • O Hymen Hymenaeus.
  • Thou too, 0 Bride, whatever dare
  • Thy groom, of coy rebuff beware,
  • Lest he to find elsewhither fare.
  • O Hymen Hymenaeus io,
  • O Hymen Hymenaeus.
  • Lo! here the house of high degree
  • Thy husband's puissant home to be,
  • Which ever shall obey thy gree.
  • O Hymen Hymenaeus io,
  • O Hymen Hymenaeus!
  • Till Time betide when eld the hoar
  • Thy head and temples trembling o'er
  • Make nod to all things evermore.
  • O Hymen Hymenaeus io,
  • 0 Hymen Hymenaeus.
  • O'erstep with omen meetest meet
  • The threshold-stone thy golden feet
  • Up, past the polisht panels fleet.
  • O Hymen Hymenaeus io,
  • O Hymen Hymerneus.
  • Within bestrewn thy bridegroom see
  • On couch of Tyrian cramoisy
  • All imminent awaiting thee.
  • O Hymen Hymenaeus io,
  • O Hymen Hymenaeus.
  • For in his breast not less than thine
  • Burn high the flames that deepest shrine,
  • Yet his the lowe far deeper lien.
  • O Hymen Hymemeus io,
  • O Hymen Hymenaeus.
  • Let fall the maid's soft arms, thou fair
  • Boy purple-hem'd: now be thy care
  • Her bridegroom's couch she seek and share.
  • O Hymen Hymenaeus io,
  • 0 Hymen Hymenaeus.
  • Ye wives time-tried to husbands wed,
  • Well-known for chastity inbred,