Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. But for what cause should I, from early subject digressing,
  2. Tell of the daughter who the face of her sire unseeing,
  3. Eke her sister's embrace nor less her mother's endearments,
  4. Who in despair bewept her hapless child that so gladly
  5. Chose before every and each the lively wooing of Theseus?
  6. Or how borne by the ship to the yeasting shore-line of Dia
  7. Came she? or how when bound her eyes in bondage of slumber
  8. Left her that chosen mate with mind unmindful departing?
  9. Often (they tell) with heart inflamed by fiery fury
  10. Poured she shrilling of shrieks from deepest depths of her bosom;
  11. Now she would sadly scale the broken faces of mountains,