Eclogues

Virgil

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

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,

and by a sister of the Muses led