Odysseus alone, filled with longing for his return and for his wife, the queenly nymph Calypso, that bright goddess, kept back in her hollow caves, yearning that he should be her husband.
τὸν δ' οἶον νόστου κεχρημένον ἠδὲ γυναικὸς νύμφη πότνι' ἔρυκε Καλυψὼ δῖα θεάων ἐν σπέσσι γλαφυροῖσι , λιλαιομένη πόσιν εἶναι .
ὁ δέ οἶος νόστος χράω ἠδέ γυνή νύμφη πότνια ἐρύκω Καλυψώ δῖος θεά ἐν σπέος γλαφυρός , λιλαίομαι πόσις1 εἰμί .