Poems

Poems

The Temptation

“This fraud of Sinon, his accomplished lying,
Won us over; a tall tale and fake tears
Had captured us, whom neither Diomedes
Nor Larisean Achilles overpowered,
Nor ten long years, nor all their thousand ships.”

– Aeneid II. 268-272 (trans. by Fitzgerald).

Poems

I Thirst

“Here thou hast no abiding city; and wherever thou shalt be, thou art a stranger and a pilgrim; nor wilt thou ever have rest, except thou be interiorly united with Christ.”

– Imitation of Christ, Bk. II. 1.