Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. alexis from these hill-slopes should away,
  2. even the rivers you would ; see run dry.”
THYRSIS
  1. “The field is parched, the grass-blades thirst to death
  2. in the faint air; Liber hath grudged the hills
  3. his vine's o'er-shadowing: should my Phyllis come,
  4. green will be all the grove, and Jupiter
  5. descend in floods of fertilizing rain.”
CORYDON
  1. “The poplar doth Alcides hold most dear,
  2. the vine Iacchus, Phoebus his own bays,
  3. and Venus fair the myrtle: therewithal