Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. round up the straggling flock! There you with me
  2. in silvan strains will learn to rival Pan.
  3. Pan first with wax taught reed with reed to join;
  4. for sheep alike and shepherd Pan hath care.
  5. Nor with the reed's edge fear you to make rough
  6. your dainty lip; such arts as these to learn
  7. what did Amyntas do?—what did he not?
  8. A pipe have I, of hemlock-stalks compact
  9. in lessening lengths, Damoetas' dying-gift: