Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Sight thee henceforth? But I will surely love thee for ever
  2. Ever what songs I sing saddened shall be by thy death;
  3. Such as the Daulian bird 'neath gloom of shadowy frondage
  4. Warbles, of Itys lost ever bemoaning the lot.)
  5. Yet amid grief so great to thee, my Hortalus, send I
  6. These strains sung to a mode borrowed from Battiades;
  7. Lest shouldest weet of me thy words, to wandering wind-gusts
  8. Vainly committed, perchance forth of my memory flowed—
  9. As did that apple sent for a furtive giftie by wooer,
  10. In the chaste breast of the Maid hidden a-sudden out-sprang;
  11. For did the hapless forget when in loose-girt garment it lurkèd,