All Poems
Paradise Lost Book 1, lines 1 - 26
Paradise Lost begins
Catullus 2
Passer, deliciae meae puellae
Phèdre, Act II, Scene V
Phaedra declares her love
Metamorphoses Book 2, lines 150 - 177
Phaethon
by Ovid
Occupat ille levem juvenali corpore currum
Phaethon's ride in the chariot of the Sun begins.
Metamorphoses Book 2, lines 301 - 332
Phaethon, concluded
by Ovid
Dixerat haec Telllus: neque enim tolerare vaporem
Jupiter's intervention finally brings Phaethon's disastrous chariot-ride to a close
Metamorphoses Book 2, lines 178 - 216
Phaethon, continued
by Ovid
Ut vero summo despexit ab aethere terras
Phaethon's disastrous ride in the chariot of the Sun continues
Catullus 4
Phaselus ille
Metamorphoses Book 8, lines 637 - 678