Eclogues

Virgil

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

  • the white bull's wandering foot-prints: him belike
  • following the herd, or by green pasture lured,
  • some kine may guide to the Gortynian stalls.
  • Then sings he of the maid so wonder-struck
  • with the apples of the Hesperids, and then
  • with moss-bound, bitter bark rings round the forms
  • of Phaethon's fair sisters, from the ground
  • up-towering into poplars. Next he sings
  • of Gallus wandering by Permessus' stream,