Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Shortly before I was shorn my sister tresses bewailèd
  2. Lot of me, e'en as the sole brother to Memnon the Black,
  3. Winnowing upper air wi' feathers flashing and quiv'ring,
  4. Chloris' wing-borne steed, came before Arsinoë,
  5. Whence upraising myself he flies through aëry shadows,