Eclogues
Virgil
Vergil. The Poems of Vergil. Rhoades, James, translator. London: Oxford University Press, 1921.
- and arbute green with thin shade sheltering you,
- ward off the solstice from my flock, for now
- comes on the burning summer, now the buds
- upon the limber vine-shoot 'gin to swell.”
- “Here is a hearth, and resinous logs, here fire
- unstinted, and doors black with ceaseless smoke.