Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. “Why, Daphnis, upward gazing, do you mark
  2. the ancient risings of the Signs? for look
  3. where Dionean Caesar's star comes forth
  4. in heaven, to gladden all the fields with corn,
  5. and to the grape upon the sunny slopes
  6. her colour bring! Now, the pears;
  7. so shall your children's children pluck their fruit.”
LYCIDAS
  1. Your pleas but linger out my heart's desire:
  2. now all the deep is into silence hushed,
  3. and all the murmuring breezes sunk to sleep.
  4. We are half-way thither, for Bianor's tomb
  5. begins to show: here, Moeris, where the hinds
  6. are lopping the thick leafage, let us sing.
  7. Set down the kids, yet shall we reach the town;