Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Nill I, lest he upraise eyebrows of carroty hue;
  2. Long is the loon and large the law-suit brought they against him
  3. 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
  6. Grants thee her grace on couch lying deserted and lone,
  7. Nor can the Muses avail with dulcet song of old writers
  8. Ever delight thy mind sleepless in anxious care;
  9. Grateful be this to my thought since thus thy friend I'm entitled,
  10. Hence of me seekest thou gifts Muses and Venus can give: