Aeneid Book 1, lines 387 - 409
Venus’s swans
'Quisquis es, haud, credo, invisus caelestibus auras
The oracle of the swans brings good news to Aeneas
Poem Tag: Odes
Metamorphoses Book 1, lines 466-76 and 525-67
Apollo and Daphne
inpiger umbrosa Parnasi constitit arce
To escape Apollo, Daphne becomes a laurel tree
Metamorphoses Book 8, lines 846 - 884
Erysichthon’s end
Iamque fame patrias altaque voragine ventris
Erysichthon's horrible end
Georgics, Book 2, lines 458 - 474
The farmer’s happy lot
O fortunatos nimium, sua si bona norint
Virgil's rosy view of the farming life
Elegies, Book 4.7
The last of Cynthia?
Odes Book 1.34
Awe for the Gods
Parcus deorum cultor et infrequens
A God makes his presence known
Georgics Book 3, lines 6 - 22 and 40 - 48
Virgil’s poetic temple to Caesar
Cui non dictus Hylas puer et Latonia Delos
Virgil looks forward to the Aeneid
Propertius elegies, Book 4.8
The last of Cynthia!
disce, quid Esquilias hac nocte fugarit aquosas
Propertius and Cynthia's final reconciliation
Aeneid Book 1, lines 81 - 143
Storm at sea!
Haec ubi dicta, cavum conversa cuspide montem
A tremendous storm threatens death to the Trojans