Poetry
Summer 2004
From the Third Georgic: Lines 179-208
From the Latin. But if what you have in mind for your horse, instead, Is war and the proud fierce cavalry or else Racing your gliding flying chariot Along […]
Poetry
Summer 1983
Aeneas at Carthage from “The Aeneid”
The two men pressed on where the pathway led, Soon climbing a long ridge that gave a view Down over the city and facing towers. Aeneas found, where lately huts […]
Poetry
Autumn 2006
Excerpts from “The Aeneid” – The Death of Priam
From the Latin. ”Perhaps you wonder how Priam met his end.When he saw his city stormed and seized, his gateswrenched apart, the enemy camped in his palace depths,the old […]
Poetry
Autumn 2006
Excerpts from “The Aeneid” – Dido in the Underworld
From the Latin. And wandering there among them, wound still fresh,Phoenician Dido drifted along the endless woods.As the Trojan hero paused beside her, recognized herthrough the shadows, a dim, […]
Poetry
Autumn 2006
Excerpts from “The Aeneid” – Aeneas and His Father’s Ghost
From the Latin. Now father Anchises, deep in the valley’s green recess,was passing among the souls secluded there, reviewing them,eagerly, on their way to the world of light above. […]