Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. your bride along; now, bridegroom, scatter nuts:
  2. forsaking Oeta mounts the evening star!
  3. O worthy of thy mate, while all men else
  4. thou scornest, and with loathing dost behold
  5. my shepherd's pipe, my goats, my shaggy brow,
  6. and untrimmed beard, nor deem'st that any god
  7. for mortal doings hath regard or care.
  8. Once with your mother, in our orchard-garth,