Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. for tender violet and narcissus bright
  2. thistle and prickly thorn uprear their heads.
  3. Now, O ye shepherds, strew the ground with leaves,
  4. and o'er the fountains draw a shady veil—
  5. so Daphnis to his memory bids be done—
  6. and rear a tomb, and write thereon this verse:
  7. ‘I, Daphnis in the woods, from hence in fame