Poems and frugments Author:Catullus Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: FLING the portal apart. The bride Waits. O see ye the luminous Torch-flakes ruddily flickering ? 80 Nought she hears us : her innocent (80) Eyes do wee... more »p to be going. 85 Weep not, lady ; for envious Tongue no lovelier owneth, Au- Runculeia ; nor any more' Fair saw rosily bright the dawn (85 ) Leave his chamber in Ocean. 90 Such in many a flowering Garden, trimm'd for a lord's delight, Stands some delicate hyacinth. Yet you tarry. The day declines. (90) Forth, fair bride, to the people. 95 Forth, fair bride, to the people, if So it likes you, a-listening Words that please us. O eye ye yon Torches ruddily flickering ? (95) Forth, fair bride, to the people. 100 Husband never of yours shah1 haunt Stained wanton, a mutinous Fancy shamefully following, Tire not ever, or e'er from your (ioo,) Dainty bosom unyoke him. 105He more lithe than a vine amid Trees, that, mazily folded, it Clasps and closes, in amorous Arms shall close thee. The day declines. (105) Forth, fair bride, to the people. uo Couch of pleasure, O odaxauj -f Couch, whose gorgeous apparellings, Silver-purple, on Indian , ,ff . f f- Woods do rest them; adown the bright Feet in ivory glisten ; 115 When thy lord in his hour attains, What large extasy, while the night (110) Fleets, or noon the meridian Passes thoro'. The day declines. Forth, fair bride, to the people. 120 Lift the torches aloft in air, Boys : the fiery veil is here. (115 ) Come, to measure your hymn rehearse. Hymen, O Hymenaeus, O Hymen, O Hymenaeus. 125 Nor withhold ye the countryman's Ribald raillery Fescenine. (120) Nor if happily boys declare Thy dominion attaint, refuse, Youth, the nuts to be flinging. 130 Fling, O womanish youth ; the boys ...« less