Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. and hallowed springs, will court the cooling shade!
  2. Here, as of old, your neighbour's bordering hedge,
  3. that feasts with willow-flower the Hybla bees,
  4. shall oft with gentle murmur lull to sleep,
  5. while the leaf-dresser beneath some tall rock
  6. uplifts his song, nor cease their cooings hoarse
  7. the wood-pigeons that are your heart's delight,
  8. nor doves their moaning in the elm-tree top.
TITYRUS
  1. Sooner shall light stags, therefore, feed in air,