Eclogues

Virgil

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

  • and deign around thy temples to let creep
  • this ivy-chaplet 'twixt the conquering bays.
  • Scarce had night's chilly shade forsook the sky
  • what time to nibbling sheep the dewy grass
  • tastes sweetest, when, on his smooth shepherd-staff
  • of olive leaning, Damon thus began.