Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. the bees are swarming.” What was I to do?
  2. No Phyllis or Alcippe left at home
  3. had I, to shelter my new-weaned lambs,
  4. and no slight matter was a singing-bout
  5. 'twixt Corydon and Thyrsis. Howsoe'er,
  6. I let my business wait upon their sport.
  7. So they began to sing, voice answering voice
  8. in strains alternate—for alternate strains
  9. the Muses then were minded to recall—