Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Hesperus! say what flame more cruel in Heaven be fanned?
  2. Thou who the girl perforce canst tear from a mother's embraces,
  3. Tear from a parent's clasp her child despite of her clinging
  4. And upon love-hot youth bestowest her chastest of maidenhoods!
  5. What shall the foeman deal more cruel to city becaptured?