The Æneid of Virgil |
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Acestes Æneas Æneid altars Anchises arms Ascanius Ausonian band battle's bear behold beneath bids blood brave breast breath brow chief Chimæra comrades coursers crew cries crown Dardan dart dead death deep Dido dread E'en earth Eneas Eryx eyes fair falchion fame fate father Faunus fear fierce fight fire flame fleet flies flood gallant gate gods gold gore hand head heart heaven host Ilium's Iulus javelin Jove Jove's Juno Juturna king land Latian Latinus Latium's Lausus loud Messapus Mezentius mighty Mnestheus neath night o'er oars once Pallas plain Priam Priam's pride proud queen race round Rutule sail Sergestus shade shield shore side sire skies slain soul spear stand steed steel stood sword Tarchon tears Teucrian thee thou throne tide tower town train Trojan Troy Troy's Turnus Twas Venus walls warrior wave wind wood wound youth
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Page 134 - So let him sue for aid, and see His people slain before his face ; Nor, when to humbling peace at length He stoops, be his or life or land, But let him fall in manhood's strength And welter tombless on the sand. Such malison to Heaven I pour, A last libation with my gore. And, Tyrians, you through time to come His seed with deathless hatred chase : Be that your gift to Dido's tomb : No love, no league 'twixt race and race, Rise from my ashes, scourge of crime, Born to pursue the Dardan horde To-day,...
Page 203 - The life of each intent to learn And what the cause that wrought them woe. Next comes their portion in the gloom Who guiltless sent themselves to doom, And all for loathing of the day In madness threw their lives away...
Page 13 - Nay, Juno's self, whose wild alarms Set ocean, earth, and heaven in arms, Shall change for smiles her moody frown, And vie with me in zeal to crown Rome's sons, the nation of the gown. So stands my will. There comes a day, While Rome's great ages hold their way, When old Assaracus's sons Shall quit them on the myrmidons, O'er Phthia and Mycenae reign, And humble Argos to their chain.
Page 217 - A fiery strength inspires their lives, An essence that from heaven derives, Though clogged in part by limbs of clay, And the dull "vesture of decay...
Page 230 - Now from the deep tineas sees A mighty grove of glancing trees. Embowered amid the silvan scene Old Tiber winds his banks between, And in the lap of ocean pours His gulfy stream, his sandy stores. Around, gay birds of diverse wing, Accustomed there to fly or sing, Were fluttering on from spray to spray And soothing ether with their lay. He bids his comrades turn aside And landward set each vessel's head, And enters in triumphant pride The river's shadowy bed.
Page 136 - Takes up the Dardan sword and bares—• Sad gift, for different uses meant. She eyed the robes with wistful look, And pausing, thought awhile and wept; Then pressed her to the couch and spoke Her last, good-night or ere she slept. ' Sweet relics of a time of love, When fate and heaven were kind, Receive my life-blood, and remove These torments of the mind. My life is lived, and I have played The part that Fortune gave, And now I pass, a queenly shade, Majestic to the grave. A glorious city I have...
Page 218 - Each for himself, we all sustain The durance of our ghostly pain ; Then to Elysium we repair. The few, and breathe this blissful air : Till, many a length of ages past, The inherent taint is cleansed at last, And nonght remains but ether bright, The quintessence of heavenly light.
Page 365 - His votary's prayer Alcides hears ; His cheeks are bathed in fruitless tears, And deep within his laboring breast He heaves a stifled groan Whom thus the Almighty Sire addressed In grave and soothing tone : " Each has his destined time : a span Is all the heritage of man : 'Tis virtue's part by deeds of praise To lengthen fame through after days.
Page 61 - Argos' common fiend, Sat cowering, by the altar screened. My blood was fired : fierce passion woke To quit Troy's fall by one sure stroke.