Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Thou wanting, never son and heir
  2. The Hearth can bear, nor parents be
  3. By issue girt, yet can it bear,
  4. Thou willing:—with such Deity,
  5. Whoe'er shall dare compare?
  6. An lack a land thy sacring rite,
  7. The perfect rule we ne'er shall see
  8. Reach Earth's far bourne; yet such we sight,
  9. Thou willing:—with such Deity
  10. Whoe'er shall dare compare?
  11. Your folds ye gateways wide-ope swing!
  12. The maiden comes. Seest not the sheen
  13. Of links their splendent tresses fling?
  14. Let shame retard the modest mien.
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  17. Who more she hears us weeps the more,
  18. That needs she must advance.
  19. Cease raining tear-drops! not for thee,
  20. Aurunculeia, risk we deem,
  21. That fairer femininety
  22. Clear day outdawned from Ocean stream
  23. Shall ever more behold.
  24. Such in the many-tinted bower
  25. Of rich man's garden passing gay
  26. Upstands the hyacinthine flower.
  27. But thou delayest, wanes the day:
  28. “Prithee, come forth new Bride.”
  29. Prithee, come forth new Bride! methinks,
  30. Drawing in sight, the talk we hold
  31. Thou haply hearest. See the Links!