Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. Now, Amaryllis, ply in triple knots
  2. the threefold colours; ply them fast, and say
  3. this is the chain of Venus that I ply.
  4. As by the kindling of the self-same fire
  5. harder this clay, this wax the softer grows,
  6. so by my love may Daphnis; sprinkle meal,
  7. and with bitumen burn the brittle bays.
  8. Me Daphnis with his cruelty doth burn,