Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Shall of the stricken maid receive limbs white as the snow-flake.
  2. Speed ye, the well-spun woof out-drawing, speed ye, 0 Spindles.
  1. For when at last shall Fors to weary Achaians her fiat
  2. Deal, of Dardanus-town to burst Neptunian fetters,
  3. Then shall the high-reared tomb stand bathed with Polyxena's life-blood,
  4. Who, as the victim doomed to fall by the double-edged falchion,
  5. Forward wi' hams relaxt shall smite a body beheaded.
  6. Speed ye, the well-spun woof out-drawing, speed ye, 0 Spindles.
  1. Wherefore arise, ye pair, conjoin loves ardently longed-for,
  2. Now doth the groom receive with happiest omen his goddess,
  3. Now let the bride at length to her yearning spouse be delivered.
  4. Speed ye, the well-spun woof out-drawing, speed ye, 0 Spindles.
  1. Neither the nurse who comes at dawn to visit her nursling