Your plant has honor'd, which your foes profan'd, Propitious hear my pious pray'r!" He said, Nor w...
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Charg'd with my message, to Camilla go, And say I sent thee to the shades below, An honor undeserv...
Prelude of bloody fields, and fights to come! Hard elements of unauspicious war, Vain vows to Heav...
To-morrow's sun, unless my skill be vain, Shall see huge heaps of foes in battle slain." Parting, ...
How high he held his shield, and rose at ev'ry blow! Had Troy produc'd two more his match in might,...
With banish'd gods, and with a baffled host, Yet now aspir'd to conquest of the state, And claim'd...
Laris and Thymbrus, on the Latian plain; So wondrous like in feature, shape, and size, As caus'd a...
I long'd to join in friendship's holy bands Our mutual hearts, and plight our mutual hands. I firs...
Apollo's priest, Emonides, was near; His holy fillets on his front appear; Glitt'ring in arms, he ...
Or see Laurentum's lofty tow'rs again? What will they say of their deserting chief The war was min...
"Why wilt thou rush to certain death, and rage In rash attempts, beyond thy tender age, Betray'd b...
To shield their shadows from contempt below. That conquer'd earth be theirs, for which they fought,...
The sounding whip and brandishes her snakes, And the pale sinner, with her sisters, takes. Then, o...
To seek the shores by destiny design'd."- "O father, can it be, that souls sublime Return to visit...
To rule mankind, and make the world obey, Disposing peace and war by thy own majestic way; To tame...