Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. But under weight prone-bowed that tender body a-bending
  2. Makes she her root anon to touch her topmost of tendrils;
  3. Tends her never a hind nor tends her ever a herdsman:
  4. Yet if haply conjoined the same with elm as a husband,
  5. Tends her many a hind and tends her many a herdsman: