Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. For not the whispering south-wind on its way
  2. so much delights me, nor wave-smitten beach,
  3. nor streams that race adown their bouldered beds.
MENALCAS
  1. First this frail hemlock-stalk to you I give,
  2. which taught me “Corydon with love was fired
  3. for fair Alexis,” ay, and this beside,
  4. “Who owns the flock?—Meliboeus?”
MOPSUS
  1. But take you
  2. this shepherd's crook, which, howso hard he begged,
  3. antigenes, then worthy to be loved,