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 burning lights of her eyes from gazing upon him
  2. Turned she, before fierce flame in all her body conceived she
  3. Down in its deepest depths and burning within her marrow.
  4. Ah, with unmitigate heart exciting wretchedmost furies,
  5. You, Boy sacrosanct! man's grief and gladness commingling,
  6. You too of Golgos Queen and Lady of leafy Idalium,
  7. Whelm'd you in what manner waves that maiden fantasy-fired,
  8. All for a blond-haired youth suspiring many a singulf!
  9. Whiles how dire was the dread she dreed in languishing heart-strings;
  10. How yet more, ever more, with golden splendour she paled!
  11. Whenas yearning to mate his might with the furious monster
  12. Theseus braved his death or sought the prizes of praises.
  13. Then of her gifts to gods not ingrate, nor profiting naught,