Love
LXXIII: Never again think any to work aught kindly soever
Translated by Robinson Ellis (1871) · From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus (1871)
Never again think any to work aught kindly soever,
Dream that in any abides honour, of injury free.
Love is a debt in arrear; time's parted service avails not;
Rather is only the more sorrow, a heavier ill:
Chiefly to me, whom none so fierce, so deadly deceiving
Troubleth, as he whose friend only but inly was I.
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Catullus, Gaius Valerius. “LXXIII: Never again think any to work aught kindly soever.” Translated by Robinson Ellis. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/catullus/68/.
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Catullus, Gaius Valerius. “LXXIII: Never again think any to work aught kindly soever.” Translated by Robinson Ellis. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/catullus/68/.
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