Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. and jagged ice not wound thy tender feet!
  2. I will depart, re-tune the songs I framed
  3. in verse Chalcidian to the oaten reed
  4. of the Sicilian swain. Resolved am I
  5. in the woods, rather, with wild beasts to couch,
  6. and bear my doom, and character my love
  7. upon the tender tree-trunks: they will grow,
  8. and you, my love, grow with them. And meanwhile
  9. I with the Nymphs will haunt Mount Maenalus,