Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. shall from their pasture to the stalls repair,
  2. 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,
  3. more worthless than strewn sea-weed, if to-day
  4. hath not a year out-lasted! Fie for shame!
  5. Go home, my cattle, from your grazing go!”
CORYDON
  1. “Ye mossy springs, and grass more soft than sleep,
  2. and arbute green with thin shade sheltering you,
  3. ward off the solstice from my flock, for now