Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. through woodland and deep grove, sinks wearied out
  2. on the green sedge beside a stream, love-lorn,
  3. nor marks the gathering night that calls her home—
  4. as pines that heifer, with such love as hers
  5. may Daphnis pine, and I not care to heal.
  6. These relics once, dear pledges of himself,
  7. the traitor left me, which, O earth, to thee
  8. here on this very threshold I commit—