Eclogues Virgil Vergil. The Poems of Vergil. Rhoades, James, translator. London: Oxford University Press, 1921. how swift she sought the desert, with what wingshovered in anguish o'er her ancient home?All that, of old, Eurotas, happy stream,heard, as Apollo mused upon the lyre,and bade his laurels learn, Silenus sang;till from Olympus, loth at his approach,