Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. And as the gloomy tree-shorn stead, the she-god's home, he sought
  2. There sorely stung with fiery ire and madman's vaguing thought,
  3. Share he with sharpened flint the freight wherewith his form was fraught.
  4. Then as the she-he sensed limbs were void of manly strain
  5. And sighted freshly shed a-ground spot of ensanguined stain,