Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. if of my love, one day, your flutes should tell!
  2. And would that I, of your own fellowship,
  3. or dresser of the ripening grape had been,
  4. or guardian of the flock! for surely then,
  5. let Phyllis, or Amyntas, or who else,
  6. bewitch me—what if swart Amyntas be?
  7. Dark is the violet, dark the hyacinth—
  8. among the willows, 'neath the limber vine,
  9. reclining would my love have lain with me,