Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. He shall the works lay low, third heir of Pelops the perjured.
  2. Speed ye, the well-spun woof out-drawing, speed ye, 0 Spindles.
  1. His be the derring-do and deeds of valour egregious,
  2. Often mothers shall own at funeral-rites of their children,
  3. What time their hoary hairs from head in ashes are loosened,
  4. And wi' their hands infirm thay smite their bosoms loose duggèd.
  5. Speed ye, the well-spun woof out-drawing, speed ye, 0 Spindles.
  1. For as the toiling hind bestrewing denseness of corn-stalks
  2. Under the broiling sun mows grain-fields yellow to harvest,
  3. So shall his baneful brand strew earth with corpses of Troy-born.
  4. Speed ye, the well-spun woof out-drawing, speed ye, 0 Spindles.