Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. Nor with the reed's edge fear you to make rough
  2. your dainty lip; such arts as these to learn
  3. what did Amyntas do?—what did he not?
  4. A pipe have I, of hemlock-stalks compact
  5. in lessening lengths, Damoetas' dying-gift:
  6. ‘Mine once,’ quoth he, ‘now yours, as heir to own.’
  7. Foolish Amyntas heard and envied me.
  8. Ay, and two fawns, I risked my neck to find
  9. in a steep glen, with coats white-dappled still,
  10. from a sheep's udders suckled twice a day—