The Ovid Project: Baur, 1703, Book 10

With accompanying text "translated into English verse under the direction of Sir Samuel Garth by John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison, William Congreve and other eminent hands" from 1713. (About the text)

Note on the format: The Metamorphoses are divided into 15 books. These images follow the same pattern. Each of the images below is linked to a larger version of the image. Each of the latin texts below is linked to the section of the poem that relates to that image.

Book the Tenth

THENCE, in his saffron robe, for distant Thrace,
Hymen departs, thro' air's unmeasur'd space;
By Orpheus call'd, the nuptial Pow'r attends,
But with ill-omen'd augury descends;
Nor chearful look'd the God, nor prosp'rous spoke,
Nor blaz'd his torch, but wept in hissing smoke.
In vain they whirl it round, in vain they shake,
No rapid motion can its flames awake.

Plate 91: Orpheus uxorem defunctam apud infernos requirit