Eclogues Virgil Vergil. The Poems of Vergil. Rhoades, James, translator. London: Oxford University Press, 1921. dear child of gods, great progeny of Jove!See how it totters—the world's orbed might,earth, and wide ocean, and the vault profound,all, see, enraptured of the coming time!Ah! might such length of days to me be given,and breath suffice me to rehearse thy deeds,nor Thracian Orpheus should out-sing me then,nor Linus, though his mother this, and thathis sire should aid—Orpheus Calliope,