Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Never a pruner's hook thins out the shade of the tree-tufts,
  2. Never a bull up-plows broad glebe with bend of the coulter,
  3. Over whose point unuse displays the squalor of rust-stain.
  4. But in the homestead's heart, where'er that opulent palace
  5. Hides a retreat, all shines with splendour of gold and of silver.