Aeneid

Virgil

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

  1. After such words and tears, he flung free rein
  2. To the swift fleet, which sped along the wave
  3. To old Euboean Cumae's sacred shore.
  4. They veer all prows to sea; the anchor fluke
  5. Makes each ship sure, and shading the long strand
  6. The rounded sterns jut o'er. Impetuously
  7. The eager warriors leap forth to land
  8. Upon Hesperian soil. One strikes the flint
  9. To find the seed-spark hidden in its veins;
  10. One breaks the thick-branched trees, and steals away
  11. The shelter where the woodland creatures bide;
  12. One leads his mates where living waters flow.
  13. Aeneas, servant of the gods, ascends
  14. The templed hill where lofty Phoebus reigns,
  15. And that far-off, inviolable shrine
  16. Of dread Sibylla, in stupendous cave,
  17. O'er whose deep soul the god of Delos breathes
  18. Prophetic gifts, unfolding things to come.
  19. Here are pale Trivia's golden house and grove.