Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Left her that chosen mate with mind unmindful departing?
  2. Often (they tell) with heart inflamed by fiery fury
  3. Poured she shrilling of shrieks from deepest depths of her bosom;
  4. Now she would sadly scale the broken faces of mountains,
  5. Whence she might overglance the boundless boiling of billows,
  6. Then she would rush to bestem the salt-plain's quivering wavelet
  7. And from her ankles bare the dainty garment uplifting,