Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. rich vervain and male frankincense, that I
  2. may strive with magic spells to turn astray
  3. my lover's saner senses, whereunto
  4. there lacketh nothing save the power of song.
  5. Songs can the very moon draw down from heaven
  6. circe with singing changed from human form
  7. the comrades of Ulysses, and by song
  8. is the cold meadow-snake, asunder burst.