Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. The perfect rule we ne'er shall see
  2. Reach Earth's far bourne; yet such we sight,
  3. Thou willing:—with such Deity
  4. Whoe'er shall dare compare?
  5. Your folds ye gateways wide-ope swing!
  6. The maiden comes. Seest not the sheen
  7. Of links their splendent tresses fling?
  8. Let shame retard the modest mien.
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  11. Who more she hears us weeps the more,
  12. That needs she must advance.
  13. Cease raining tear-drops! not for thee,
  14. Aurunculeia, risk we deem,
  15. That fairer femininety
  16. Clear day outdawned from Ocean stream
  17. Shall ever more behold.
  18. Such in the many-tinted bower
  19. Of rich man's garden passing gay
  20. Upstands the hyacinthine flower.
  21. But thou delayest, wanes the day:
  22. “Prithee, come forth new Bride.”
  23. Prithee, come forth new Bride! methinks,
  24. Drawing in sight, the talk we hold
  25. Thou haply hearest. See the Links!
  26. How shake their locks begilt with gold:
  27. Prithee, new Bride come forth.
  28. Not lightly given thy mate to ill
  29. Joys and adulterous delights
  30. Foul fleshly pleasures seeking still
  31. Shall ever choose he lie o' nights
  32. Far from thy tender paps.
  33. But as with pliant shoots the vine
  34. Round nearest tree-trunk winds her way,
  35. He shall be ever twined in thine