Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Absence doomëd for aye ta'en fro' my mistress's head,
  2. Where I was wont (though she such cares unknew in her girlhood)
  3. Many a thousand scents, Syrian unguents, to sip.
  4. Now do you pair conjoined by the longed-for light of the torches,
  5. Earlier yield not selves unto unanimous wills
  6. Nor wi' the dresses doft your barèd nipples encounter,
  7. Ere shall yon onyx-vase pour me libations glad,
  8. Onyx yours, ye that seek only rights of virtuous bed-rite.