Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. “Libethrian Nymphs, who are my heart's delight,
  2. grant me, as doth my Codrus, so to sing—
  3. next to Apollo he—or if to this
  4. we may not all attain, my tuneful pipe
  5. here on this sacred pine shall silent hang.”
THYRSIS
  1. “Arcadian shepherds, wreathe with ivy-spray
  2. your budding poet, so that Codrus burst
  3. with envy: if he praise beyond my due,
  4. then bind my brow with foxglove, lest his tongue