Aeneid

Virgil

Vergil. The Aeneid of Virgil. Williams, Theodore, C, translator. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1910.

  1. Arms and the man I sing, who first made way,
  2. predestined exile, from the Trojan shore
  3. to Italy, the blest Lavinian strand.
  4. Smitten of storms he was on land and sea
  5. by violence of Heaven, to satisfy
  6. stern Juno's sleepless wrath; and much in war
  7. he suffered, seeking at the last to found
  8. the city, and bring o'er his fathers' gods
  9. to safe abode in Latium; whence arose
  10. the Latin race, old Alba's reverend lords,
  11. and from her hills wide-walled, imperial Rome.
  1. O Muse, the causes tell! What sacrilege,
  2. or vengeful sorrow, moved the heavenly Queen
  3. to thrust on dangers dark and endless toil
  4. a man whose largest honor in men's eyes
  5. was serving Heaven? Can gods such anger feel?