Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Never the humble vine is purged by curve of the rake-tooth,
  2. Never a pruner's hook thins out the shade of the tree-tufts,
  3. Never a bull up-plows broad glebe with bend of the coulter,
  4. Over whose point unuse displays the squalor of rust-stain.
  5. But in the homestead's heart, where'er that opulent palace