Eclogues
Virgil
Vergil. The Poems of Vergil. Rhoades, James, translator. London: Oxford University Press, 1921.
- full-length in polished marble, ankle-bound
- with purple buskin, shall thy statue stand.”
- “A bowl of milk, Priapus, and these cakes,
- yearly, it is enough for thee to claim;
- thou art the guardian of a poor man's plot.
- Wrought for a while in marble, if the flock
- at lambing time be filled,stand there in gold.”
- “Daughter of Nereus, Galatea mine,
- sweeter than Hybla-thyme, more white than swans,
- fairer than ivy pale, soon as the steers
- shall from their pasture to the stalls repair,
- if aught for Corydon thou carest, come.”
- “Now may I seem more bitter to your taste
- than herb Sardinian, rougher than the broom,
- more worthless than strewn sea-weed, if to-day
- hath not a year out-lasted! Fie for shame!
- Go home, my cattle, from your grazing go!”
- “Ye mossy springs, and grass more soft than sleep,
- and arbute green with thin shade sheltering you,
- ward off the solstice from my flock, for now