Eclogues
Virgil
Vergil. The Poems of Vergil. Rhoades, James, translator. London: Oxford University Press, 1921.
- descend in floods of fertilizing rain.”
- “The poplar doth Alcides hold most dear,
- the vine Iacchus, Phoebus his own bays,
- and Venus fair the myrtle: therewithal
- phyllis doth hazels love, and while she loves,
- myrtle nor bay the hazel shall out-vie.”