Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. unstinted, and doors black with ceaseless smoke.
  2. Here heed we Boreas' icy breath as much
  3. as the wolf heeds the number of the flock,
  4. or furious rivers their restraining banks.”
CORYDON
  1. “The junipers and prickly chestnuts stand,
  2. and 'neath each tree lie strewn their several fruits,
  3. now the whole world is smiling, but if fair
  4. alexis from these hill-slopes should away,
  5. even the rivers you would ; see run dry.”