Eclogues
Virgil
Vergil. The Poems of Vergil. Rhoades, James, translator. London: Oxford University Press, 1921.
- my she-goats, go. Never again shall I,
- stretched in green cave, behold you from afar
- hang from the bushy rock; my songs are sung;
- never again will you, with me to tend,
- on clover-flower, or bitter willows, browse.
- Yet here, this night, you might repose with me,
- on green leaves pillowed: apples ripe have I,
- soft chestnuts, and of curdled milk enow.
- And, see, the farm-roof chimneys smoke afar,