| The Aeneid, Book VI, [First, the sky and the earth] First, the sky and the earth |
| The Iliad, Book I, Lines 1-15 RAGE: / Sing, Goddess, Achilles' rage, |
| The Odyssey, Book I, Lines 1-20 SPEAK, MEMORY-- |
| The Iliad, Book I, Lines 1-16 Anger be now your song, immortal one, |
| The Iliad, Book I, [A Friend Consigned to Death] |
| The Odyssey, Book XXIII, [The Trunk of the Olive Tree] An old trunk of olive |
| The Aeneid, Book IV, [So, you traitor] So, you traitor, you really believed you'd keep |
| The Aeneid, Book I, [A grove stood in the city] A grove stood in the city, rich in shade |
| Inferno, Canto XXXIV Towards us; therefore look in front of thee |
| Inferno, Canto I Midway upon the journey of our life |
| Don Juan [If from great nature's or our own abyss If from great nature's or our own abyss |
| The Iliad, Book I, Lines 1-14 Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring |