Aeneid
Virgil
Vergil. The Aeneid of Virgil. Williams, Theodore, C, translator. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1910.
- Arms and the man I sing, who first made way,
- predestined exile, from the Trojan shore
- to Italy, the blest Lavinian strand.
- Smitten of storms he was on land and sea
- by violence of Heaven, to satisfy
- stern Juno's sleepless wrath; and much in war
- he suffered, seeking at the last to found
- the city, and bring o'er his fathers' gods
- to safe abode in Latium; whence arose
- the Latin race, old Alba's reverend lords,
- and from her hills wide-walled, imperial Rome.
- O Muse, the causes tell! What sacrilege,
- or vengeful sorrow, moved the heavenly Queen
- to thrust on dangers dark and endless toil
- a man whose largest honor in men's eyes
- was serving Heaven? Can gods such anger feel?