Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Holds thee, an alien earth-buried in uttermost bourne.
  2. Thither in haste so hot ('tis said) from allwhere the Youth-hood
  3. Grecian, farèd in hosts forth of their hearths and their homes,
  4. Lest with a stolen punk with fullest of pleasure should Paris
  5. Fairly at leisure and ease sleep in the pacific bed.
  6. Such was the hapless chance, most beautiful Laodamia,