Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. alone without me, and from home afar,
  2. look'st upon Alpine snows and frozen Rhine.
  3. Ah! may the frost not hurt thee, may the sharp
  4. and jagged ice not wound thy tender feet!
  5. I will depart, re-tune the songs I framed
  6. in verse Chalcidian to the oaten reed
  7. of the Sicilian swain. Resolved am I
  8. in the woods, rather, with wild beasts to couch,
  9. and bear my doom, and character my love
  10. upon the tender tree-trunks: they will grow,