Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. No pangs of ours can change him; not though we
  2. in the mid-frost should drink of Hebrus' stream,
  3. and in wet winters face Sithonian snows,
  4. or, when the bark of the tall elm-tree bole
  5. of drought is dying, should, under Cancer's Sign,
  6. in Aethiopian deserts drive our flocks.
  7. Love conquers all things; yield we too to love!”
  8. These songs, Pierian Maids, shall it suffice
  9. your poet to have sung, the while he sat,