Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. This truth taught me my Queen by force of manifold 'plainings
  2. After her new groom hied facing the fierceness of fight.
  3. Yet so thou mournedst not for a bed deserted of husband,
  4. As for a brother beloved wending on woefullest way?
  5. How was the marrow of thee consumedly wasted by sorrow!
  6. So clean forth of thy breast, rackt with solicitous care,