Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. in verse Chalcidian to the oaten reed
  2. of the Sicilian swain. Resolved am I
  3. in the woods, rather, with wild beasts to couch,
  4. and bear my doom, and character my love
  5. upon the tender tree-trunks: they will grow,
  6. and you, my love, grow with them. And meanwhile
  7. I with the Nymphs will haunt Mount Maenalus,
  8. or hunt the keen wild boar. No frost so cold
  9. but I will hem with hounds thy forest-glades,
  10. parthenius. Even now, methinks, I range
  11. o'er rocks, through echoing groves, and joy to launch
  12. Cydonian arrows from a Parthian bow.—
  13. as if my madness could find healing thus,
  14. or that god soften at a mortal's grief!
  15. Now neither Hamadryads, no, nor songs
  16. delight me more: ye woods, away with you!
  17. No pangs of ours can change him; not though we