Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. the names of kings upon their petals writ,
  2. and you shall have fair Phyllis for your own.”
PALAEMON
  1. Not mine betwixt such rivals to decide:
  2. you well deserve the heifer, so does he,
  3. with all who either fear the sweets of love,
  4. or taste its bitterness. Now, boys, shut off
  5. the sluices, for the fields have drunk their fill.