Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Ever a Door was endow'd either with earlet or tongue.
  2. Further she noted a wight whose name in public to mention
  3. Nill I, lest he upraise eyebrows of carroty hue;
  4. Long is the loon and large the law-suit brought they against him
  5. Touching a child-bed false, claim of a belly that lied.
  1. When to me sore opprest by bitter chance of misfortune
  2. This thy letter thou send'st written wi' blotting of tears,
  3. So might I save thee flung by spuming billows of ocean,
  4. Shipwreckt, rescuing life snatcht from the threshold of death;
  5. Eke neither Venus the Holy to rest in slumber's refreshment