Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. and treat of dolorous wars—will rather tune
  2. to the slim oaten reed my silvan lay.
  3. I sing but as vouchsafed me; yet even this
  4. if, if but one with ravished eyes should read,
  5. of thee, O Varus, shall our tamarisks
  6. and all the woodland ring; nor can there be
  7. a page more dear to Phoebus, than the page
  8. where, foremost writ, the name of Varus stands.
  9. Speed ye, Pierian Maids! Within a cave
  10. young Chromis and Mnasyllos chanced to see