Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. In the well-witnessed Will haply by name did appear,
  2. And 'spite impious hopes of baffled claimant to kinship
  3. Startles the Vulturine grip clutching the frost-bitten poll.
  4. Nor with such rapture e'er joyed his mate of snowy-hued plumage
  5. Dove-mate, albeit aye wont in her immoderate heat
  6. Said be the bird to snatch hot kisses with beak ever billing,