Carmina

Catullus

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

  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
  2. E'er shall avail her neck to begird with yesterday's ribband.
  3. [Speed ye, the well-spun woof out-drawing, speed ye, 0 spindles.]
  4. Nor shall the mother's soul for ill-matcht daughter a-grieving
  5. Lose by a parted couch all hopes of favourite grandsons.
  6. Speed ye, the well-spun woof out-drawing, speed ye, 0 Spindles.