Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. There casting glance of weeping eyes where vasty billows brake,
  2. Sad-voiced in pitifullest lay his native land bespake.
  3. "Country of me, Creatress mine, born to thee and bred,
  4. By hapless me abandoned as by thrall from lordling fled,
  5. When me to Ida's groves and glades these vaguing footsteps bore