Carmina

Catullus

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

  • That needs she must advance.
  • Cease raining tear-drops! not for thee,
  • Aurunculeia, risk we deem,
  • That fairer femininety
  • Clear day outdawned from Ocean stream
  • Shall ever more behold.
  • Such in the many-tinted bower
  • Of rich man's garden passing gay
  • Upstands the hyacinthine flower.
  • But thou delayest, wanes the day:
  • “Prithee, come forth new Bride.”
  • Prithee, come forth new Bride! methinks,
  • Drawing in sight, the talk we hold
  • Thou haply hearest. See the Links!
  • How shake their locks begilt with gold:
  • Prithee, new Bride come forth.
  • Not lightly given thy mate to ill
  • Joys and adulterous delights
  • Foul fleshly pleasures seeking still
  • Shall ever choose he lie o' nights