Carmina

Catullus

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

  • Let son like father's semblance show
  • (Manlius!) so with easy guess
  • All know him where his sire they know,
  • And still his face and form express
  • His mother's honest love.
  • Approve shall fair approof his birth
  • From mother's seed-stock generous,
  • As rarest fame of mother's worth
  • Unique exalts Telemachus
  • Penelope's own son.
  • Fast close the door-leaves, virgin band:
  • Enow we've played. But ye the fair
  • New-wedded twain live happy, and
  • Functions of lusty married pair
  • Exercise sans surcease.

    • Youths
    1. Vesper is here, O youths, rise all; for Vesper Olympus
    2. Scales and in fine enfires what lights so long were expected!