Eclogues

Virgil

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

  • what gifts, to him by Philomel were given;
  • how swift she sought the desert, with what wings
  • hovered in anguish o'er her ancient home?
  • All that, of old, Eurotas, happy stream,
  • heard, as Apollo mused upon the lyre,
  • and bade his laurels learn, Silenus sang;
  • till from Olympus, loth at his approach,
  • vesper, advancing, bade the shepherds tell
  • their tale of sheep, and pen them in the fold.