Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Fulgent in brightness afar, to many a host of the Godheads
  2. Stretching her soft smooth arms she vowed to devoutly bestow,
  3. What time strengthened by joy of new-made wedlock the monarch
  4. Bounds of Assyrian land hurried to plunder and pill;
  5. Bearing of nightly strife new signs and traces delicious,
  6. Won in the war he waged virginal trophies to win.
  7. Loathsome is Venus to all new-paired? Else why be the parents'
  8. Pleasure frustrated aye by the false flow of tears
  9. Poured in profusion amid illuminate genial chamber?
  10. Nay not real the 'groans; ever so help me the Gods!