Eclogues
Virgil
Vergil. The Poems of Vergil. Rhoades, James, translator. London: Oxford University Press, 1921.
- may Doris blend no bitter wave with thine,
- begin! The love of Gallus be our theme,
- and the shrewd pangs he suffered, while, hard by,
- the flat-nosed she-goats browse the tender brush.
- We sing not to deaf ears; no word of ours
- but the woods echo it. What groves or lawns