Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. How of the fast rising sun obscured be the fiery splendours,
  2. How at the seasons assured vanish the planets from view,
  3. How Diana to lurk thief-like 'neath Latmian stone-fields,
  4. Summoned by sweetness of Love, comes from her aëry gyre;
  5. That same Cónon espied among lights Celestial shining
  6. Me, Berenice's Hair, which, from her glorious head,
  7. Fulgent in brightness afar, to many a host of the Godheads
  8. Stretching her soft smooth arms she vowed to devoutly bestow,
  9. What time strengthened by joy of new-made wedlock the monarch
  10. Bounds of Assyrian land hurried to plunder and pill;
  11. Bearing of nightly strife new signs and traces delicious,