Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. tmaros or Rhodope brought forth the boy,
  2. or Garamantes in earth's utmost bounds—
  3. no kin of ours, nor of our blood begot.
  4. Fierce Love it was once steeled a mother's heart
  5. with her own offspring's blood her hands to imbrue:
  6. mother, thou too wert cruel; say wert thou
  7. more cruel, mother, or more ruthless he?
  8. Ruthless the boy, thou, mother, cruel too.
  9. Now let the wolf turn tail and fly the sheep,
  10. tough oaks bear golden apples, alder-trees
  11. bloom with narcissus-flower, the tamarisk
  12. sweat with rich amber, and the screech-owl vie
  13. in singing with the swan: let Tityrus
  14. be Orpheus, Orpheus in the forest-glade,