Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. of Damon and Alphesiboeus now,
  2. those shepherd-singers at whose rival strains
  3. the heifer wondering forgot to graze,
  4. the lynx stood awe-struck, and the flowing streams,
  5. unwonted loiterers, stayed their course to hear—
  6. how Damon and Alphesiboeus sang
  7. their pastoral ditties, will I tell the tale.
  8. Thou, whether broad Timavus' rocky banks
  9. thou now art passing, or dost skirt the shore
  10. of the Illyrian main,—will ever dawn