Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Dove-mate, albeit aye wont in her immoderate heat
  2. Said be the bird to snatch hot kisses with beak ever billing,
  3. As diddest thou :—yet is Woman multivolent still.
  4. But thou 'vailedest alone all these to conquer in love-lowe,
  5. When conjoindd once more unto thy yellow-haired spouse.
  6. Worthy of yielding to her in naught or ever so little
  7. Came to the bosom of us she, the fair light of my life,
  8. Round whom fluttering oft the Love-God hither and thither
  9. Shone with a candid sheen robed in his safflower dress.
  10. She though never she bide with one Catullus contented,
  11. Yet will I bear with the rare thefts of my dame the discreet,