Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. so by my love may Daphnis; sprinkle meal,
  2. and with bitumen burn the brittle bays.
  3. Me Daphnis with his cruelty doth burn,
  4. I to melt cruel Daphnis burn this bay.
  5. As when some heifer, seeking for her steer
  6. through woodland and deep grove, sinks wearied out
  7. on the green sedge beside a stream, love-lorn,
  8. nor marks the gathering night that calls her home—