Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Widest, yon truculent main where yields it power of passage?
  2. Aid of my sire can I crave? Whom I willing abandoned,
  3. Treading in tracks of a youth bewrayed with blood of a brother!
  4. Can I console my soul with the helpful love of a helpmate
  5. Who flies me with pliant oars, flies overbounding the sea-depths?
  6. Nay, if this Coast I quit, this lone isle lends me no roof-tree,
  7. Nor aught issue allows begirt by billows of Ocean: