Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Of links their splendent tresses fling?
  2. Let shame retard the modest mien.
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  5. Who more she hears us weeps the more,
  6. That needs she must advance.
  7. Cease raining tear-drops! not for thee,
  8. Aurunculeia, risk we deem,
  9. That fairer femininety
  10. Clear day outdawned from Ocean stream
  11. Shall ever more behold.
  12. Such in the many-tinted bower
  13. Of rich man's garden passing gay
  14. Upstands the hyacinthine flower.
  15. But thou delayest, wanes the day:
  16. “Prithee, come forth new Bride.”
  17. Prithee, come forth new Bride! methinks,
  18. Drawing in sight, the talk we hold
  19. Thou haply hearest. See the Links!
  20. How shake their locks begilt with gold: