Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. and from the hills the shadows lengthening fall!
  1. the shepherd Corydon with love was fired
  2. for fair Alexis, his own master's joy:
  3. no room for hope had he, yet, none the less,
  4. the thick-leaved shadowy-soaring beech-tree grove
  5. still would he haunt, and there alone, as thus,
  6. to woods and hills pour forth his artless strains.
  7. “Cruel Alexis, heed you naught my songs?
  8. Have you no pity? you'll drive me to my death.