Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. bees with the cytisus, or goats with leaves.”
  2. “Yet will ye sing, Arcadians, of my woes
  3. upon your mountains,” sadly he replied—
  4. “Arcadians, that alone have skill to sing.
  5. O then how softly would my ashes rest,
  6. if of my love, one day, your flutes should tell!
  7. And would that I, of your own fellowship,
  8. or dresser of the ripening grape had been,
  9. or guardian of the flock! for surely then,
  10. let Phyllis, or Amyntas, or who else,