Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Ever what songs I sing saddened shall be by thy death;
  2. Such as the Daulian bird 'neath gloom of shadowy frondage
  3. Warbles, of Itys lost ever bemoaning the lot.)
  4. Yet amid grief so great to thee, my Hortalus, send I
  5. These strains sung to a mode borrowed from Battiades;
  6. Lest shouldest weet of me thy words, to wandering wind-gusts
  7. Vainly committed, perchance forth of my memory flowed—
  8. As did that apple sent for a furtive giftie by wooer,