Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Or from the polisht brass woke thin-toned tinkling music,
  2. While from the many there boomed and blared hoarse blast of the horn-trump,
  3. And with its horrid skirl loud shrilled the barbarous bag-pipe
  4. Showing such varied forms, that richly-decorated couch-cloth
  5. Folded in strait embrace the bedding drapery-veiled.
  6. This when the Thessalan youths had eyed with eager inspection
  7. Fulfilled, place they began to provide for venerate Godheads,
  8. Even as Zephyrus' breath, seas couching placid at dawn-tide,
  9. Roughens, then stings and spurs the wavelets slantingly fretted—
  10. Rising Aurora the while 'neath Sol the wanderer's threshold—