Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. and arbute green with thin shade sheltering you,
  2. ward off the solstice from my flock, for now
  3. comes on the burning summer, now the buds
  4. upon the limber vine-shoot 'gin to swell.”
THYRSIS
  1. “Here is a hearth, and resinous logs, here fire
  2. unstinted, and doors black with ceaseless smoke.