Aeneid

Virgil

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

  1. One more immortal name thy death bequeathed,
  2. Nurse of Aeneas, to Italian shores,
  3. Caieta; there thy honor hath a home;
  4. Thy bones a name: and on Hesperia's breast
  5. Their proper glory.When Aeneas now
  6. The tribute of sepulchral vows had paid
  7. Beside the funeral mound, and o'er the seas
  8. Stillness had fallen, he flung forth his sails,
  9. And leaving port pursued his destined way.
  10. Freshly the night-winds breathe; the cloudless moon
  11. Outpours upon his path unstinted beam,
  12. And with far-trembling glory smites the sea.
  13. Close to the lands of Circe soon they fare,
  14. Where the Sun's golden daughter in far groves
  15. Sounds forth her ceaseless song; her lofty hall
  16. Is fragrant every night with flaring brands
  17. Of cedar, giving light the while she weaves
  18. With shrill-voiced shuttle at her linens fine.
  19. From hence are heard the loud lament and wrath
  20. Of lions, rebels to their linked chains
  21. And roaring all night long; great bristly boars
  22. And herded bears, in pinfold closely kept,
  23. Rage horribly, and monster-wolves make moan;
  24. Whom the dread goddess with foul juices strong
  25. From forms of men drove forth, and bade to wear
  26. the mouths and maws of beasts in Circe's thrall.
  27. But lest the sacred Trojans should endure
  28. such prodigy of doom, or anchor there
  29. on that destroying shore, kind Neptune filled
  30. their sails with winds of power, and sped them on
  31. in safety past the perils of that sea.