Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Wind I still to the west, conducting tardy Boötes,
  2. Who unwilling and slow must into Ocean merge.
  3. Yet though press me o'night the pacing footprints of Godheads,
  4. Tethys, hoary of hair, ever regains me by day.
  5. (Lend me thy leave to speak such words, Rhamnusian Virgin,
  6. Verities like unto these never in fear will I veil;
  7. Albeit every star asperse me with enemy's censure,
  8. Secrets in soothfast heart hoarded perforce I reveal.)
  9. Nowise gladdens me so this state as absence torments me,
  10. Absence doomëd for aye ta'en fro' my mistress's head,
  11. Where I was wont (though she such cares unknew in her girlhood)