Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. may Doris blend no bitter wave with thine,
  2. begin! The love of Gallus be our theme,
  3. and the shrewd pangs he suffered, while, hard by,
  4. the flat-nosed she-goats browse the tender brush.
  5. We sing not to deaf ears; no word of ours
  6. but the woods echo it. What groves or lawns