Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Whence she might overglance the boundless boiling of billows,
  2. Then she would rush to bestem the salt-plain's quivering wavelet
  3. And from her ankles bare the dainty garment uplifting,
  4. Spoke she these words ('tis said) from sorrow's deepest abysses,
  5. While from her tear-drencht face outburst cold shivering sobs.
  6. "Thus from my patrial shore, O traitor, hurried to exile,
  7. Me on a lonely strand hast left, perfidious Theseus?
  8. Thus wise farest, despite the godhead of Deities spurned,
  9. (Reckless, alas!) to your home convoying perjury-curses?
  10. Naught, then, ever availed that mind of cruelest counsel
  11. Alter? No saving grace in you was evermore ready,