Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. I can address; no more shall I hear thee tell of thy doings,
  2. Say, shall I never again, brother all liefer than life,
  3. Sight thee henceforth? But I will surely love thee for ever
  4. Ever what songs I sing saddened shall be by thy death;
  5. Such as the Daulian bird 'neath gloom of shadowy frondage
  6. Warbles, of Itys lost ever bemoaning the lot.)
  7. Yet amid grief so great to thee, my Hortalus, send I
  8. These strains sung to a mode borrowed from Battiades;
  9. Lest shouldest weet of me thy words, to wandering wind-gusts