Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Italy: Vols. XI–XIII. 1876–79. | | | | Etna (Ætna), the Mountain | | Etna | | Virgil (70–19 B.C.) |
| | (From Æneid, Book VIII) Translated by C. P. Cranch
NEAR Sicily and Æolian Lipari | |
| An island rises steep, with smoking rocks. | |
| Beneath, by huge Cyclopean forges scooped | |
| And eaten out, the vast Ætnean caves | |
| Thunder, and mighty anvil-strokes are heard; | 5 |
| And all the caverns roar and hiss, with blasts | |
| Of fiery steel, from panting furnaces. | |
| The abode of Vulcan this, lending its name | |
| To the surrounding soil. Here from on high | |
| The fire-god lights. Below, the Cyclops toil | 10 |
| Over their forges: Brontes, Steropes, | |
| And naked-limbed Pyracmon. | | | | |
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