Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Cease, and my cheeks with showers ever in sadness be wet.
  2. E'en as from aëry heights of mountain springeth a springlet
  3. Limpidest leaping forth from rocking felted with moss,
  4. Then having headlong rolled the prone-laid valley downpouring,
  5. Populous region amid wendeth his gradual way,
  6. Sweetest solace of all to the sweltering traveller wayworn,
  7. Whenas the heavy heat fissures the fiery fields;
  8. Or, as to seamen lost in night of whirlwind a-glooming
  9. Gentle of breath there comes fairest and favouring breeze,
  10. Pollux anon being prayed, nor less vows offered to Castor:—