Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. is crown of glory, as to vines the grape,
  2. bulls to the herd, to fruitful fields the corn,
  3. so the one glory of thine own art thou.
  4. When the Fates took thee hence, then Pales' self,
  5. and even Apollo, left the country lone.
  6. Where the plump barley-grain so oft we sowed,
  7. there but wild oats and barren darnel spring;