Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Secrets in soothfast heart hoarded perforce I reveal.)
  2. Nowise gladdens me so this state as absence torments me,
  3. Absence doomëd for aye ta'en fro' my mistress's head,
  4. Where I was wont (though she such cares unknew in her girlhood)