Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. 0 Hymen Hymenaeus.
  2. Thou lacking, Venus ne'er avails—
  3. While Fame approves for honesty—
  4. Love-joys to lavish: ne'er she fails
  5. Thou willing:—with such Deity
  6. Whoe'er shall dare compare?
  7. Thou wanting, never son and heir
  8. The Hearth can bear, nor parents be
  9. By issue girt, yet can it bear,
  10. Thou willing:—with such Deity,
  11. Whoe'er shall dare compare?
  12. An lack a land thy sacring rite,
  13. The perfect rule we ne'er shall see
  14. Reach Earth's far bourne; yet such we sight,
  15. Thou willing:—with such Deity
  16. Whoe'er shall dare compare?
  17. Your folds ye gateways wide-ope swing!
  18. The maiden comes. Seest not the sheen
  19. Of links their splendent tresses fling?
  20. Let shame retard the modest mien.
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  23. Who more she hears us weeps the more,
  24. That needs she must advance.
  25. Cease raining tear-drops! not for thee,
  26. Aurunculeia, risk we deem,
  27. That fairer femininety
  28. Clear day outdawned from Ocean stream
  29. Shall ever more behold.