Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. and even Apollo, left the country lone.
  2. Where the plump barley-grain so oft we sowed,
  3. there but wild oats and barren darnel spring;
  4. for tender violet and narcissus bright
  5. thistle and prickly thorn uprear their heads.
  6. Now, O ye shepherds, strew the ground with leaves,
  7. and o'er the fountains draw a shady veil—
  8. so Daphnis to his memory bids be done—
  9. and rear a tomb, and write thereon this verse: