Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Soon as her beak had burst through wind-rackt spaces of ocean,
  2. While the oar-tortured wave with spumy whiteness was blanching,
  3. Surged from the deep abyss and hoar-capped billows the faces
  4. Seaborn, Nereids eyeing the prodigy wonder-smitten.
  5. There too mortal orbs through softened spendours regarded
  6. Ocean-nymphs who exposed bodies denuded of raiment
  7. Bare to the breast upthrust from hoar froth capping the sea-depths.