Aeneid

Virgil

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

  1. But now his destined way he must be gone;
  2. Now the last regions round the travellers lie,
  3. Where famous warriors in the darkness dwell:
  4. Here Tydeus comes in view, with far-renowned
  5. Parthenopaeus and Adrastus pale;
  6. Here mourned in upper air with many a moan,
  7. In battle fallen, the Dardanidae,
  8. Whose long defile Aeneas groans to see:
  9. Glaucus and Medon and Thersilochus,
  10. Antenor's children three, and Ceres' priest,
  11. That Polypoetes, and Idaeus still.
  12. Keeping the kingly chariot and spear.
  13. Around him left and right the crowding shades
  14. Not only once would see, but clutch and cling
  15. Obstructive, asking on what quest he goes.
  16. Soon as the princes of Argolic blood,
  17. With line on line of Agamemnon's men,
  18. Beheld the hero and his glittering arms
  19. Flash through the dark, they trembled with amaze,
  20. Or turned in flight, as if once more they fled
  21. To shelter of the ships; some raised aloft
  22. A feeble shout, or vainly opened wide
  23. Their gaping lips in mockery of sound.