Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. first my Thalia stooped in sportive mood
  2. to Syracusan strains, nor blushed within
  3. the woods to house her. When I sought to tell
  4. of battles and of kings, the Cynthian god
  5. plucked at mine ear and warned me: “Tityrus,
  6. beseems a shepherd-wight to feed fat sheep,
  7. but sing a slender song.” Now, Varus, I—
  8. for lack there will not who would laud thy deeds,
  9. and treat of dolorous wars—will rather tune