Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Lesbius is beauty-man: why not? when Lesbia wills him
  2. Better, Catullus, than thee backed by the whole of thy clan.
  3. Yet may that beauty-man sell all his clan with Catullus,
  4. An of three noted names greeting salute he can gain.
  1. How shall I (Gellius!) tell what way lips rosy as thine are
  2. Come to be bleached and blanched whiter than wintry snow,
  3. When as thou quittest the house a-morn, and at two after noon-tide
  4. Roused from quiet repose, wakest for length of the day?
  5. Certès sure am I not an Rumour rightfully whisper
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