Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. and the wild boar upon my crystal springs!
  2. Whom do you fly, infatuate? gods ere now,
  3. and Dardan Paris, have made the woods their home.
  4. Let Pallas keep the towers her hand hath built,
  5. us before all things let the woods delight.
  6. The grim-eyed lioness pursues the wolf,
  7. the wolf the she-goat, the she-goat herself
  8. in wanton sport the flowering cytisus,
  9. and Corydon Alexis, each led on