Eclogues

Virgil

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

  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.