Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. 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.
  7. Thus in the bygone day Peleus' fate foretelling
  8. Chaunted from breasts divine prophetic verse the Parcae.
  9. For that the pure chaste homes of heroes to visit in person