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:
  9. to Gallus ye will magnify their worth,
  10. Gallus, for whom my love grows hour by hour,
  11. as the green alder shoots in early Spring.
  12. Come, let us rise: the shade is wont to be
  13. baneful to singers; baneful is the shade
  14. cast by the juniper, crops sicken too
  15. in shade. Now homeward, having fed your fill—
  16. eve's star is rising—go, my she-goats, go.