Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. for Nysa, and with this my dying breath
  2. call on the gods, though little it bestead—
  3. the gods who heard her vows and heeded not.
  4. Ever hath Maenalus his murmuring groves
  5. and whispering pines, and ever hears the songs
  6. of love-lorn shepherds, and of Pan, who first
  7. brooked not the tuneful reed should idle lie.
  8. Nysa to Mopsus given! what may not then
  9. we lovers look for? soon shall we see mate
  10. griffins with mares, and in the coming age
  11. shy deer and hounds together come to drink.
  12. Now, Mopsus, cut new torches, for they bring
  13. your bride along; now, bridegroom, scatter nuts: