Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. begin! The love of Gallus be our theme,
  2. and the shrewd pangs he suffered, while, hard by,
  3. the flat-nosed she-goats browse the tender brush.
  4. We sing not to deaf ears; no word of ours
  5. but the woods echo it. What groves or lawns
  6. held you, ye Dryad-maidens, when for love—
  7. love all unworthy of a loss so dear—
  8. Gallus lay dying? for neither did the slopes
  9. of Pindus or Parnassus stay you then,