Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. “O Meliboeus! goat and kids are safe;
  2. and, if you have an idle hour to spare,
  3. rest here beneath the shade. Hither the steers
  4. will through the meadows, of their own free will,
  5. untended come to drink. Here Mincius hath
  6. with tender rushes rimmed his verdant banks,
  7. and from yon sacred oak with busy hum
  8. the bees are swarming.” What was I to do?
  9. No Phyllis or Alcippe left at home
  10. had I, to shelter my new-weaned lambs,