<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=393559" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lesbia’s Sparrow</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">All you Loves and Cupids cry<br>and all you men of feeling<br>my girl’s sparrow is dead,<br>my girl’s beloved sparrow.<br>She loved him more than herself.<br>He was sweeter than honey, and he<br>knew her, as she knows her mother.<br>He never flew out of her lap,<br>but, hopping about here and there,<br>just chirped to his lady, alone.<br>Now he is flying the dark<br>no one ever returns from.<br>Evil to you, evil Shades<br>of Orcus, destroyers of beauty.<br>You have stolen the beautiful sparrow from me.<br>Oh sad day! Oh poor little sparrow!<br>Because of you my sweet girl’s eyes<br>are red with weeping, and swollen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gaius+Valerius+Catullus">Gaius Valerius Catullus</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=393559" data-title="Lesbia’s Sparrow de Gaius Valerius Catullus" data-description="All you Loves and Cupids cry and all you men of feeling my girl’s sparrow is dead, my girl’s beloved sparrow. She loved him more than herself. He was sweeter than honey, and he knew her, as she knows her mother. He never flew out of her lap, b..."></div> </div> </div>

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