Eclogues

Virgil

Vergil. The Poems of Vergil. Rhoades, James, translator. London: Oxford University Press, 1921.

  1. You, Tityrus, 'neath a broad beech-canopy
  2. reclining, on the slender oat rehearse
  3. your silvan ditties: I from my sweet fields,
  4. and home's familiar bounds, even now depart.
  5. Exiled from home am I; while, Tityrus, you
  6. sit careless in the shade, and, at your call,
  7. “Fair Amaryllis” bid the woods resound.
TITYRUS
  1. O Meliboeus, 'twas a god vouchsafed
  2. this ease to us, for him a god will I
  3. deem ever, and from my folds a tender lamb