Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. albeit he was so dark, and you so fair!
  2. Trust not too much to colour, beauteous boy;
  3. white privets fall, dark hyacinths are culled.
  4. You scorn me, Alexis, who or what I am
  5. care not to ask—how rich in flocks, or how
  6. in snow-white milk abounding: yet for me
  7. roam on Sicilian hills a thousand lambs;
  8. summer or winter, still my milk-pails brim.
  9. I sing as erst Amphion of Circe sang,