Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. and in wet winters face Sithonian snows,
  2. or, when the bark of the tall elm-tree bole
  3. of drought is dying, should, under Cancer's Sign,
  4. in Aethiopian deserts drive our flocks.
  5. Love conquers all things; yield we too to love!”
  6. These songs, Pierian Maids, shall it suffice
  7. your poet to have sung, the while he sat,
  8. and of slim mallow wove a basket fine: