Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Driven perforce to loose the neck of new-wedded help-mate,
  2. Whenas a winter had gone, nor other winter had come,
  3. Ere in the long dark nights her greeding love was so sated
  4. That she had power to live maugrè a marriage broke off,
  5. Which, as the Parcae knew, too soon was fated to happen
  6. Should he a soldier sail bound for those llian walls.