Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Thou willing:—with such Deity
  2. Whoe'er shall dare compare?
  3. Your folds ye gateways wide-ope swing!
  4. The maiden comes. Seest not the sheen
  5. Of links their splendent tresses fling?
  6. Let shame retard the modest mien.
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  9. Who more she hears us weeps the more,
  10. That needs she must advance.
  11. Cease raining tear-drops! not for thee,
  12. Aurunculeia, risk we deem,
  13. That fairer femininety
  14. Clear day outdawned from Ocean stream
  15. Shall ever more behold.
  16. Such in the many-tinted bower
  17. Of rich man's garden passing gay
  18. Upstands the hyacinthine flower.
  19. But thou delayest, wanes the day:
  20. “Prithee, come forth new Bride.”
  21. Prithee, come forth new Bride! methinks,