Lesbia and her Sparrow

Anonymous Fresco from Herculanaeum

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My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love;

And though the sager sort our deeds reprove,

Let us not weigh them. Heaven’s great lamps do dive

Into their west, and straight again revive,

But soon as once is set our little light,

Then must we sleep one ever-during night.

Gaius Valerius Catullus (ca. 60 BC)

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Angelo Caroselli (1st half 17th C.)

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Antonio Zucchi (ca. 1778)

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Joshua Reynolds (ca. 1876)

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Guillaume Brun (1860)

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Jacques Chevalier (1861)

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Lawrence Alma-Tadema - Lesbia Weeping over a Sparrow (1866)

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Francois Truphème (1875)

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John Reinhard Weguelin (1878)

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Edward Poynter (ca. 1880)

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Félicien Rops (late 19th C.)

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Hector Leroux (late 19th C.)

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James Sant (1881)

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Tony Robert Fleury (1885)

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Stefan Bakalovich (late 19th C.)

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George William Joy (1896)

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Charles Sims (1909)

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John William Godward (1916)

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Norman Lindsay (1921)

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Lesbia

'Great Love of a Roman Poet'

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