Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. my native bounds—see many a harvest hence
  2. with ravished eyes the lowly turf-roofed cot
  3. where I was king? These fallows, trimmed so fair,
  4. some brutal soldier will possess these fields
  5. an alien master. Ah! to what a pass
  6. has civil discord brought our hapless folk!
  7. For such as these, then, were our furrows sown!
  8. Now, Meliboeus, graft your pears, now set
  9. your vines in order! Go, once happy flock,