Arts & Sciences
A Sparrow Was Thy Emblem, O Catullus!
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Arts & Sciences
A sparrow was thy emblem, O Catullus!
A dove was thine, tender and true Tibullus!
No truer and no tenderer was the dove
Whom Noah chose all other birds above
To he the parent inmate of his ark,
When earth was water and the sun was dark.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “A Sparrow Was Thy Emblem, O Catullus!” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/932/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “A Sparrow Was Thy Emblem, O Catullus!” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/932/.
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