Carmina
Catullus
Catullus, Gaius Valerius. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. Burton, Sir Richard Francis, translator. London, Printed for the Translators, 1894.
- The Hearth can bear, nor parents be
- By issue girt, yet can it bear,
- Thou willing:—with such Deity,
- Whoe'er shall dare compare?
- An lack a land thy sacring rite,
- The perfect rule we ne'er shall see
- Reach Earth's far bourne; yet such we sight,
- Thou willing:—with such Deity
- Whoe'er shall dare compare?
- Your folds ye gateways wide-ope swing!
- The maiden comes. Seest not the sheen
- Of links their splendent tresses fling?
- Let shame retard the modest mien.
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- Who more she hears us weeps the more,
- That needs she must advance.
- Cease raining tear-drops! not for thee,
- Aurunculeia, risk we deem,
- That fairer femininety
- Clear day outdawned from Ocean stream
- Shall ever more behold.
- Such in the many-tinted bower
- Of rich man's garden passing gay
- Upstands the hyacinthine flower.
- But thou delayest, wanes the day:
- “Prithee, come forth new Bride.”
- Prithee, come forth new Bride! methinks,
- Drawing in sight, the talk we hold
- Thou haply hearest. See the Links!
- How shake their locks begilt with gold:
- Prithee, new Bride come forth.
- Not lightly given thy mate to ill
- Joys and adulterous delights
- Foul fleshly pleasures seeking still
- Shall ever choose he lie o' nights
- Far from thy tender paps.
- But as with pliant shoots the vine
- Round nearest tree-trunk winds her way,