Chides my delay, and fills my soul with fears; And young Ascanius justly may complain Of his defra...
2011-12-15
If gods are gods, and not invok'd in vain; Yet spare the relics of the Trojan train! Yet from the ...
Or, in less compass, Troy's epitome. A riv'let by the name of Xanthus ran, And I embrace the Scaea...
Restor'd to vital air our hidden foes, Who joyful from their long confinement rose. Tysander bold,...
Conduct my steps to Tiber's happy shore; If ever I ascend the Latian throne, And build a city I ma...
And some, oppress'd with more ignoble fear, Remount the hollow horse, and pant in secret there. "B...
And in deserted caverns lodge by night; Oft from the rocks a dreadful prospect see Of the huge Cyc...
Pitied the woes a parent underwent, And sent me back in safety from his tent.' "This said, his fee...
Her falt'ring tongue forbids to speak the rest. When day declines, and feasts renew the night, Sti...
A peal of rattling thunder roll in air: There shot a streaming lamp along the sky, Which on the wi...
The God of Arms, who rules the Thracian coast, That they, or he, these omens would avert, Release ...
That Phrygian gods to Latium should be brought, Or who believ'd what mad Cassandra taught? Now let...
If on my nation just revenge you seek, And 't is t' appear a foe, t' appear a Greek; Already you m...
THE AENEID by Virgil BOOK I Arms, and the man I sing, who, forc'd by fate, And haughty Juno's un...
His pow'r to hollow caverns is confin'd: There let him reign, the jailer of the wind, With hoarse ...