Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. (Vainly? nay to my bane and at a ruinous price!)
  2. Hast thou cajoled me thus, and enfiring innermost vitals,
  3. Ravished the whole of our good own'd by wretchedest me?
  4. Ravished; (alas and alas!) of our life thou cruellest cruel
  5. Venom, (alas and alas!) plague of our friendship and pest.
  6. Yet must I now lament that lips so pure of the purest
  7. Damsel, thy slaver foul soiled with filthiest kiss.
  8. But ne'er hope to escape scot free; for thee shall all ages
  9. Know, and what thing thou be, Fame, the old crone, shall declare.
  1. Gallus hath brothers in pair, this owning most beautiful consort,