winter's dark days

"Burdened and sick at heart, he feigned hope in his look, and inwardedly contained his anguish." Virgil, The Aeneid.

burnt tree

"Terrors and treacheries we have in plenty.  All that may prolong a war is there: they fight now hand to hand

And arms luck gave are running with fresh blood."  Juno in The Aeneid by Virgil

your eyes

"But keep your eyes below us, for coming near
Is the river of blood-in which boils everyone
Whose violence hurts others."
Virgil to Dante in The Inferno.