Eclogues

Virgil

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

  • 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—
    6. the gods who heard her vows and heeded not.
    7. Ever hath Maenalus his murmuring groves