Of modern poems upon the story of the maiden seized in the vale of Enna, none conveys a lesson more serene of the beauty of that dark lover of all fair life, Death, than the Proserpine of Woodberry, from which we quote the three following stanzas.
— from The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911) Based Originally on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable" (1855) by Thomas Bulfinch

“Volsimi, e ’n contro a lei mi parve oscuro, (Santi lumi del ciel, con vostra pace) L’Oriente, che dianzi era si bello.”
— from History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Vol. I by John Colin Dunlop