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,
  7. Mind fled, sense being reft! But I have known thee for certain
  8. E'en from young virginal years lofty of spirit to be.
  9. Hast thou forgotten the feat whose greatness won thee a royal
  10. Marriage—a deed so prow, never a prower was dared?