Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Startles the Vulturine grip clutching the frost-bitten poll.
  2. Nor with such rapture e'er joyed his mate of snowy-hued plumage
  3. Dove-mate, albeit aye wont in her immoderate heat
  4. Said be the bird to snatch hot kisses with beak ever billing,
  5. As diddest thou :—yet is Woman multivolent still.
  6. But thou 'vailedest alone all these to conquer in love-lowe,
  7. When conjoindd once more unto thy yellow-haired spouse.
  8. Worthy of yielding to her in naught or ever so little
  9. Came to the bosom of us she, the fair light of my life,
  10. Round whom fluttering oft the Love-God hither and thither
  11. Shone with a candid sheen robed in his safflower dress.