Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Alter? No saving grace in you was evermore ready,
  2. That to have pity on me vouchsafed your pitiless bosom?
  3. Nevertheless not in past time such were the promises wordy
  4. Lavished; nor such hopes to me the hapless were bidden;
  5. But the glad married joys, the longed-for pleasures of wedlock.
  6. All now empty and vain, by breath of the breezes bescattered!
  7. Now, let woman no more trust her to man when he sweareth,