Aeneid

Virgil

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

  1. Aeneas at the sight stood terror-dumb
  2. with choking voice and horror-rising hair.
  3. He fain would fly at once and get him gone
  4. from that voluptuous land, much wondering
  5. at Heaven's wrathful word. Alas! how stir?
  6. What cunning argument can plead his cause
  7. before th' infuriate Queen? How break such news?
  8. Flashing this way and that, his startled mind
  9. makes many a project and surveys them all.
  10. But, pondering well, his final counsel stopped
  11. at this resolve: he summoned to his side
  12. Mnestheus, Sergestus, and Serestus bold,
  13. and bade them fit the fleet, all silently
  14. gathering the sailors and collecting gear,
  15. but carefully dissembling what emprise
  16. such novel stir intends: himself the while
  17. (Since high-born Dido dreamed not love so fond
  18. could have an end) would seek an audience,
  19. at some indulgent time, and try what shift
  20. such matters may require. With joy they heard,
  21. and wrought, assiduous, at their prince's plan.