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,
  2. While unto that is given also a beautiful son.
  3. Gallus is charming as man; for sweet loves ever conjoins he,