Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Reach Earth's far bourne; yet such we sight,
  2. Thou willing:—with such Deity
  3. Whoe'er shall dare compare?
  4. Your folds ye gateways wide-ope swing!
  5. The maiden comes. Seest not the sheen
  6. Of links their splendent tresses fling?
  7. Let shame retard the modest mien.
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  10. Who more she hears us weeps the more,
  11. That needs she must advance.
  12. Cease raining tear-drops! not for thee,
  13. Aurunculeia, risk we deem,
  14. That fairer femininety
  15. Clear day outdawned from Ocean stream
  16. Shall ever more behold.
  17. Such in the many-tinted bower
  18. Of rich man's garden passing gay
  19. Upstands the hyacinthine flower.
  20. But thou delayest, wanes the day:
  21. “Prithee, come forth new Bride.”
  22. Prithee, come forth new Bride! methinks,
  23. Drawing in sight, the talk we hold
  24. Thou haply hearest. See the Links!
  25. How shake their locks begilt with gold:
  26. Prithee, new Bride come forth.
  27. Not lightly given thy mate to ill