Carmina

Catullus

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

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