<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=393569" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Death of Lesbia’s Sparrow</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mourn, O you Loves and Cupids<br>and such of you as love beauty:<br>my girl’s sparrow is dead,<br>sparrow, the girl’s delight,<br>whom she loved more than her eyes.<br>For he was sweet as honey, and knew her<br>as well as the girl her own mother,<br>he never moved from her lap,<br>but, hopping about here and there,<br>chirped to his mistress alone.<br>Now he goes down the shadowy road<br>from which they say no one returns.<br>Now let evil be yours, evil shadows of Orcus,<br>that devour everything of beauty:<br>you’ve stolen lovely sparrow from me.<br>O evil deed! O poor little sparrow!<br>Now, by your efforts, my girl’s eyes<br>are swollen and red with weeping.</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=393569" data-title="The Death of Lesbia’s Sparrow de Gaius Valerius Catullus" data-description="Mourn, O you Loves and Cupids and such of you as love beauty: my girl’s sparrow is dead, sparrow, the girl’s delight, whom she loved more than her eyes. For he was sweet as honey, and knew her as well as the girl her own mother, he never moved..."></div> </div> </div>

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