Eclogues

Virgil

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

  • and for her neck had feared the galling plough.
  • O ill-starred maid! thou roamest now the hills,
  • while on soft hyacinths he, his snowy side
  • reposing, under some dark ilex now
  • chews the pale herbage, or some heifer tracks
  • amid the crowding herd. Now close, ye Nymphs,