Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. Fierce Love it was once steeled a mother's heart
  2. with her own offspring's blood her hands to imbrue:
  3. mother, thou too wert cruel; say wert thou
  4. more cruel, mother, or more ruthless he?
  5. Ruthless the boy, thou, mother, cruel too.
  6. Now let the wolf turn tail and fly the sheep,
  7. tough oaks bear golden apples, alder-trees
  8. bloom with narcissus-flower, the tamarisk