Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. In the chaste breast of the Maid hidden a-sudden out-sprang;
  2. For did the hapless forget when in loose-girt garment it lurkèd,
  3. Forth would it leap as she rose, scared by her mother's approach,
  4. And while coursing headlong, it rolls far out of her keeping,
  5. O'er the triste virgin's brow flushes the conscious blush.
  1. He who every light of the sky world's vastness inspected,
  2. He who mastered in mind risings and settings of stars,
  3. How of the fast rising sun obscured be the fiery splendours,