Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. tough oaks bear golden apples, alder-trees
  2. bloom with narcissus-flower, the tamarisk
  3. sweat with rich amber, and the screech-owl vie
  4. in singing with the swan: let Tityrus
  5. be Orpheus, Orpheus in the forest-glade,
  6. arion 'mid his dolphins on the deep.
  7. Yea, be the whole earth to mid-ocean turned!
  8. Farewell, ye woodlands I from the tall peak