Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Nowhere is path for flight: none hope shows: all things are silent:
  2. All be a desolate waste: all makes display of destruction.
  3. Yet never close these eyes in latest languor of dying,
  4. Ne'er from my wearied frame go forth slow-ebbing my senses,
  5. Ere from the Gods just doom implore I, treason-betrayed,
  6. And with my breath supreme firm faith of Celestials invoke I.
  7. Therefore, O you who 'venge man's deed with penalties direful,