Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Fairly at leisure and ease sleep in the pacific bed.
  2. Such was the hapless chance, most beautiful Laodamia,
  3. Tare fro' thee dearer than life, dearer than spirit itself,
  4. Him, that husband, whose love in so mighty a whirlpool of passion