Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Tear from a parent's clasp her child despite of her clinging
  2. And upon love-hot youth bestowest her chastest of maidenhoods!
  3. What shall the foeman deal more cruel to city becaptured?
  4. Hymen O Hymenaeus, Hymen here, O Hymenaeus!
Youths
  1. Hesperus! say what flame more gladsome in Heavens be shining?
  2. Thou whose light makes sure long-pledged connubial promise
  3. Plighted erewhile by men and erstwhile plighted by parents.