Today’s poem comes from C. S. Lewis’s incomplete translation of Virgil’s Aeneid–particularly the voyage to the underworld in Book 6. The tragic love story that has captivated poets, painters, and even the occasional saint for millennia culminates here in the Carthaginian queen’s silent, spiteful spurning of Aen…
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