Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. upon the heart of Daphnis make essay.
  2. Nothing for gods, nothing for songs cares he.
  3. Look, look I the very embers of themselves
  4. have caught the altar with a flickering flame,
  5. while I delay to fetch them: may the sign
  6. prove lucky! something it must mean, for sure,
  7. and Hylax on the threshold 'gins to bark!
  8. May we believe it, or are lovers still