Carmina

Catullus

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

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  3. Who more she hears us weeps the more,
  4. That needs she must advance.
  5. Cease raining tear-drops! not for thee,
  6. Aurunculeia, risk we deem,
  7. That fairer femininety
  8. Clear day outdawned from Ocean stream
  9. Shall ever more behold.
  10. Such in the many-tinted bower
  11. Of rich man's garden passing gay
  12. Upstands the hyacinthine flower.
  13. But thou delayest, wanes the day:
  14. “Prithee, come forth new Bride.”
  15. Prithee, come forth new Bride! methinks,
  16. Drawing in sight, the talk we hold
  17. Thou haply hearest. See the Links!
  18. How shake their locks begilt with gold:
  19. Prithee, new Bride come forth.
  20. Not lightly given thy mate to ill
  21. Joys and adulterous delights
  22. Foul fleshly pleasures seeking still
  23. Shall ever choose he lie o' nights
  24. Far from thy tender paps.
  25. But as with pliant shoots the vine
  26. Round nearest tree-trunk winds her way,
  27. He shall be ever twined in thine
  28. Embraces:— yet, lo! wanes the day:
  29. Prithee, come forth new Bride!
  30. Couchlet which to me and all
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  32. With bright white bedstead foot.
  33. What joys the lord of thee betide!
  34. What love-liesse on vaguing way
  35. 0' nights! What sweets in morning tide
  36. For thee be stored! Yet wanes the day:
  37. Prithee, come forth fresh Bride!