Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. call on the gods, though little it bestead—
  2. the gods who heard her vows and heeded not.
  3. Ever hath Maenalus his murmuring groves
  4. and whispering pines, and ever hears the songs
  5. of love-lorn shepherds, and of Pan, who first
  6. brooked not the tuneful reed should idle lie.
  7. Nysa to Mopsus given! what may not then
  8. we lovers look for? soon shall we see mate
  9. griffins with mares, and in the coming age
  10. shy deer and hounds together come to drink.
  11. Now, Mopsus, cut new torches, for they bring
  12. your bride along; now, bridegroom, scatter nuts:
  13. forsaking Oeta mounts the evening star!
  14. O worthy of thy mate, while all men else
  15. thou scornest, and with loathing dost behold
  16. my shepherd's pipe, my goats, my shaggy brow,