Carmina

Catullus

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

  • 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
  • Far from thy tender paps.
  • But as with pliant shoots the vine
  • Round nearest tree-trunk winds her way,
  • He shall be ever twined in thine
  • Embraces:— yet, lo! wanes the day:
  • Prithee, come forth new Bride!
  • Couchlet which to me and all
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  • With bright white bedstead foot.
  • What joys the lord of thee betide!
  • What love-liesse on vaguing way
  • 0' nights! What sweets in morning tide
  • For thee be stored! Yet wanes the day:
  • Prithee, come forth fresh Bride!
  • Your lighted links, 0 boys, wave high:
  • I see the flamey veil draw nigh:
  • Hie, sing in merry mode and cry
  • "0 Hymen Hymenaeus io,