Etna, her furnace-walls asunder riven, In billowy floods boil o'er the Cyclops' fields, And roll d...
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Willows by water-courses have their birth, Alders in miry fens; on rocky heights The barren mounta...
Here turned its shoulder to the northern pole; So strong is custom formed in early years. Whether ...
Forgets to ward, and waits the coming blow. Astonish'd while he stands, and fix'd with fear, Aim'd...
Our single swords the quarrel shall decide, And to the victor be the beauteous bride." He said, an...
Then, gath'ring sound, they murmur more aloud. Now, side to side, they measure with their eyes The...
Hard enterprise! and well he might require Achilles' car and horses, for his hire: But, met upon t...
As never more in fields to meet the foe; Then I conclude for peace: 't is time to treat, And lie l...
What chiefs and champions fell on either side, In combat slain, or by what deaths they died; Whom ...
Thro' air she flies a suppliant to thy shrine; And the first weapons that she knows, are thine.' H...
These eyes beheld Murranus bite the ground: Mighty the man, and mighty was the wound. I heard my d...
Who trust your courser's strength, and not your own? Forego the vantage of your horse, alight, And...
Your plant has honor'd, which your foes profan'd, Propitious hear my pious pray'r!" He said, Nor w...
Charg'd with my message, to Camilla go, And say I sent thee to the shades below, An honor undeserv...
Prelude of bloody fields, and fights to come! Hard elements of unauspicious war, Vain vows to Heav...