Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Still of your competence 'twas within your household to home me,
  2. Where I might serve as slave in gladsome service familiar,
  3. Laving your snow-white feet in clearest chrystalline waters
  4. Or with its purpling gear your couch in company strewing.
  5. Yet for what cause should I complain in vain to the winds that unknow me,
  6. (I so beside me with grief!) which ne'er of senses endued
  7. Hear not the words sent forth nor aught avail they to answer?
  8. Now be his course well-nigh engaged in midway of ocean,
  9. Nor any mortal shape appears in barrens of sea-wrack.
  10. Thus at the latest hour with insults over-sufficient
  11. E'en to my plaints fere Fate begrudges ears that would hear me.