Aeneid

Virgil

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

  1. Now morning flushed the wave, and saffron-garbed
  2. Aurora from her rose-red chariot beamed
  3. in highest heaven; the sea-winds ceased to stir;
  4. a sudden calm possessed the air, and tides
  5. of marble smoothness met the laboring oar.
  6. Then, gazing from the deep, Aeneas saw
  7. a stretch of groves, whence Tiber's smiling stream,
  8. its tumbling current rich with yellow sands,
  9. burst seaward forth: around it and above
  10. shore-haunting birds of varied voice and plume
  11. flattered the sky with song, and, circling far
  12. o'er river-bed and grove, took joyful wing.
  13. Thither to landward now his ships he steered,
  14. and sailed, high-hearted, up the shadowy stream.