Eclogues

Virgil

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

  • 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.
    • DAMON
    1. “Rise, Lucifer, and, heralding the light,
    2. bring in the genial day, while I make moan
    3. fooled by vain passion for a faithless bride,
    4. for Nysa, and with this my dying breath
    5. call on the gods, though little it bestead—