Eclogues
Virgil
Vergil. The Poems of Vergil. Rhoades, James, translator. London: Oxford University Press, 1921.
- the names of kings upon their petals writ,
- and you shall have fair Phyllis for your own.”
- Not mine betwixt such rivals to decide:
- you well deserve the heifer, so does he,
- with all who either fear the sweets of love,
- or taste its bitterness. Now, boys, shut off
- the sluices, for the fields have drunk their fill.