Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. Wrought for a while in marble, if the flock
  2. at lambing time be filled,stand there in gold.”
CORYDON
  1. “Daughter of Nereus, Galatea mine,
  2. sweeter than Hybla-thyme, more white than swans,
  3. fairer than ivy pale, soon as the steers
  4. shall from their pasture to the stalls repair,
  5. if aught for Corydon thou carest, come.”
THYRSIS
  1. “Now may I seem more bitter to your taste
  2. than herb Sardinian, rougher than the broom,