Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Such as the Daulian bird 'neath gloom of shadowy frondage
  2. Warbles, of Itys lost ever bemoaning the lot.)
  3. Yet amid grief so great to thee, my Hortalus, send I
  4. These strains sung to a mode borrowed from Battiades;
  5. Lest shouldest weet of me thy words, to wandering wind-gusts
  6. Vainly committed, perchance forth of my memory flowed—
  7. As did that apple sent for a furtive giftie by wooer,
  8. In the chaste breast of the Maid hidden a-sudden out-sprang;
  9. For did the hapless forget when in loose-girt garment it lurkèd,
  10. Forth would it leap as she rose, scared by her mother's approach,