A Little Dabble

Hello. This is Autumn and I Rock. I never said I rocked at Halo...but I can and do rock at other things.

I decided my blog really isn't going to consist of any day to day habits of mine, or anything really having to do with anything else. I am a mythology geek...and an english geek...and a literature geek. SO, I think I will just waste my blog space giving you all a little dabble into some of my favorite pieces, either when I come across them or as I remember them. I may even throw in a good story I would recommend reading! ENJOY! Now, how can I write my very first blog and not start with Ovid's description of Chaos!?!

From Metamorphoses

Publius Ovidius Naso (43 B.C.E.--17 C.E.)

Translation by John Dryden

Of bodies chang'd to various forms, I sing:

Ye Gods, from whom these miracles did spring,

Inspire my numbers with celestial heat;

Till I my long laborious work compleat:

And add perpetual tenour to my rhimes,

Deduc'd from Nature's birth, to Caesar's times.

Before the seas, and this terrestrial ball,

And Heav'n's high canopy, that covers all,

Once was the face of Nature; if a face:

Rather a rude and indigested mass:

A lifeless lump, unfashion'd, and unfram'd,

Of jarring seeds; and justly Chaos named.

No sun was lighted up, the world to view;

No moon did yet her blunted horns renew:

Nor yet was Earth suspended in the sky,

Nor pois'd, did on her own foundations lye:

Nor seas about the shores their arms had thrown;

But earth, and air, and water, were in one.

Thus air was void of light, and earth unstable,

And water's dark abyss unnavigable.

No certain formonany was imprest;

All were confus'd, and each disturb'd the rest.

For hot and cold were in one body fixt;

And soft with hard, and light with heavy mixt.