Aeneid

Virgil

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

  1. They walked exploring the unpeopled night,
  2. Through Pluto's vacuous realms, and regions void,
  3. As when one's path in dreary woodlands winds
  4. Beneath a misty moon's deceiving ray,
  5. When Jove has mantled all his heaven in shade,
  6. And night seals up the beauty of the world.
  7. In the first courts and entrances of Hell
  8. Sorrows and vengeful Cares on couches lie :
  9. There sad Old Age abides, Diseases pale,
  10. And Fear, and Hunger, temptress to all crime;
  11. Want, base and vile, and, two dread shapes to see,
  12. Bondage and Death : then Sleep, Death's next of kin;
  13. And dreams of guilty joy. Death-dealing War
  14. Is ever at the doors, and hard thereby
  15. The Furies' beds of steel, where wild-eyed Strife
  16. Her snaky hair with blood-stained fillet binds.