Love
CIV: What? should a lover adore, yet cruelly slander adoring?
Translated by Robinson Ellis (1871) · From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus (1871)
Love
What? should a lover adore, yet cruelly slander adoring?
I my lady, than eyes goodlier easily she?
Nay, I rail not at all. How rail, so blindly desiring?
Tappo alone dare brave all that is heinous, or you.
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Catullus, Gaius Valerius. “CIV: What? should a lover adore, yet cruelly slander adoring?” Translated by Robinson Ellis. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/catullus/96/.
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Catullus, Gaius Valerius. “CIV: What? should a lover adore, yet cruelly slander adoring?” Translated by Robinson Ellis. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/catullus/96/.
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