Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. more worthless than strewn sea-weed, if to-day
  2. hath not a year out-lasted! Fie for shame!
  3. 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
  4. comes on the burning summer, now the buds
  5. upon the limber vine-shoot 'gin to swell.”
THYRSIS
  1. “Here is a hearth, and resinous logs, here fire