Aeneid

Virgil

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

  1. Meanwhile low thunders in the distant sky
  2. mutter confusedly; soon bursts in full
  3. the storm-cloud and the hail. The Tyrian troop
  4. is scattered wide; the chivalry of Troy,
  5. with the young heir of Dardan's kingly line,
  6. of Venus sprung, seek shelter where they may,
  7. with sudden terror; down the deep ravines
  8. the swollen torrents roar. In that same hour
  9. Queen Dido and her hero out of Troy
  10. to the same cavern fly. Old Mother-Earth
  11. and wedlock-keeping Juno gave the sign;
  12. the flash of lightnings on the conscious air
  13. were torches to the bridal; from the hills
  14. the wailing wood-nymphs sobbed a wedding song.
  15. Such was that day of death, the source and spring
  16. of many a woe. For Dido took no heed
  17. of honor and good-name; nor did she mean
  18. her loves to hide; but called the lawlessness
  19. a marriage, and with phrases veiled her shame.