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Chanson de Printemps

by Marcel Proust

Les souffles flottant dans les bois en fleurs

A love poem by Marcel Proust

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Aeneid Book 6, lines 295 - 330

Charon, the ferryman

Hinc via Tartarei quae fert Acherontis ad undas

Charon, the ferryman of the dead

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Catullus 16

Constructive criticism welcome

pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo

Catullus holds his ground with the critics

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Odes 3.5

Courage and decadence: the Regulus ode

Caelo tonantem credidimus Iovem regnare

Horace's Regulus ode

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Elegies, Book 1.1

Cynthia

Cynthia prima suis miserum me cepit ocellis

Propertius introduces Cynthia

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Metamorphoses Book 8, Lines 200 - 235

Daedalus and Icarus

postquam manus ultima coepto inposita est

The story of Daedalus and Icarus

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Inferno Canto 1 lines 61 - 85

Dante and Virgil meet

by Dante Alighieri

Mentre ch' io rovinava in basso loco

Dante and Virgil meet

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Der Schwan (The Swan)

Diese Mühsal, durch noch Ungetanes

Rilke sees a metaphor for life and death in the swan on land and on water.

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Odes 1.21

Diana and Apollo: a hymn

Dianam tenerae dicite virgines

A chorus of boys and girls hymns Diana and Apollo

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Aeneid Book 4, lines 362 - 393

Dido and Aeneas: Hell hath no fury …

Talia dicentem iamdudum aversa tuetur

Dido and Aeneas: the confrontation

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Aeneid Book 4, lines 129 - 172

Dido and Aeneas: royal hunt and royal affair

Oceanum interea surgens Aurora reliquit

The splendid hunt, the lovers' cave

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Aeneid Book 1, lines 695 - 722

Dido and Cupid

Iamque ibat dicto parens et dona Cupido

In disguise, Cupid stirs Dido to love

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