Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. daphnis beneath a rustling ilex-tree
  2. had sat him down; Thyrsis and Corydon
  3. had gathered in the flock, Thyrsis the sheep,
  4. and Corydon the she-goats swollen with milk—
  5. both in the flower of age, Arcadians both,
  6. ready to sing, and in like strain reply.
  7. Hither had strayed, while from the frost I fend
  8. my tender myrtles, the he-goat himself,
  9. lord of the flock; when Daphnis I espy!