Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. And 'spite impious hopes of baffled claimant to kinship
  2. Startles the Vulturine grip clutching the frost-bitten poll.
  3. Nor with such rapture e'er joyed his mate of snowy-hued plumage
  4. Dove-mate, albeit aye wont in her immoderate heat
  5. Said be the bird to snatch hot kisses with beak ever billing,
  6. As diddest thou :—yet is Woman multivolent still.