Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. I sing but as vouchsafed me; yet even this
  2. if, if but one with ravished eyes should read,
  3. of thee, O Varus, shall our tamarisks
  4. and all the woodland ring; nor can there be
  5. a page more dear to Phoebus, than the page
  6. where, foremost writ, the name of Varus stands.
  7. Speed ye, Pierian Maids! Within a cave
  8. young Chromis and Mnasyllos chanced to see
  9. silenus sleeping, flushed, as was his wont,