Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Your folds ye gateways wide-ope swing!
  2. The maiden comes. Seest not the sheen
  3. Of links their splendent tresses fling?
  4. Let shame retard the modest mien.
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  7. Who more she hears us weeps the more,
  8. That needs she must advance.
  9. Cease raining tear-drops! not for thee,
  10. Aurunculeia, risk we deem,
  11. That fairer femininety
  12. Clear day outdawned from Ocean stream
  13. Shall ever more behold.
  14. Such in the many-tinted bower
  15. Of rich man's garden passing gay