Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. and with bitumen burn the brittle bays.
  2. Me Daphnis with his cruelty doth burn,
  3. I to melt cruel Daphnis burn this bay.
  4. As when some heifer, seeking for her steer
  5. through woodland and deep grove, sinks wearied out
  6. on the green sedge beside a stream, love-lorn,
  7. nor marks the gathering night that calls her home—
  8. as pines that heifer, with such love as hers
  9. may Daphnis pine, and I not care to heal.
  10. These relics once, dear pledges of himself,
  11. the traitor left me, which, O earth, to thee
  12. here on this very threshold I commit—
  13. pledges that bind him to redeem the debt.
  14. These herbs of bane to me did Moeris give,