poet-shepherds

Updated: August 9, 2026

'Not of wars, not of tears, but of Pan would he chant, and of the neatherds he sweetly sang, and singing he shepherded his flocks. This was the training that Sicily, her hills, her seas, her lovers, her poet-shepherds, gave to Theocritus. Sicily showed him subjects which he imitated in truthful art.

of Phlossa near Smyrna Bion - Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose