Eclogues
Virgil
Vergil. The Poems of Vergil. Rhoades, James, translator. London: Oxford University Press, 1921.
- and whispering pines, and ever hears the songs
- of love-lorn shepherds, and of Pan, who first
- brooked not the tuneful reed should idle lie.
- Nysa to Mopsus given! what may not then
- we lovers look for? soon shall we see mate
- griffins with mares, and in the coming age
- shy deer and hounds together come to drink.
- Now, Mopsus, cut new torches, for they bring
- your bride along; now, bridegroom, scatter nuts:
- forsaking Oeta mounts the evening star!
- O worthy of thy mate, while all men else
- thou scornest, and with loathing dost behold
- my shepherd's pipe, my goats, my shaggy brow,
- and untrimmed beard, nor deem'st that any god
- for mortal doings hath regard or care.
- Once with your mother, in our orchard-garth,