Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. He whom the Trojan soil, Rhoetean shore underlying,
  2. Buries for ever and aye, forcibly snatched from our sight.
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  4. I can address; no more shall I hear thee tell of thy doings,
  5. Say, shall I never again, brother all liefer than life,
  6. Sight thee henceforth? But I will surely love thee for ever
  7. Ever what songs I sing saddened shall be by thy death;
  8. Such as the Daulian bird 'neath gloom of shadowy frondage
  9. Warbles, of Itys lost ever bemoaning the lot.)
  10. Yet amid grief so great to thee, my Hortalus, send I