Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Thrown, lie fronting her feet to the briny wavelets a sea-toy.
  2. But at such now no more of her veil or her fillet a-floating
  3. Had she regard: on you, Theseus! all of her heart-strength,
  4. All of her sprite, her mind, forlorn, were evermore hanging.
  5. Ah, sad soul, by grief and grievance driven beside you,
  6. Sowed Erycina first those brambly cares in thy bosom,
  7. What while issuing fierce with will enstarkened, Theseus