Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Eclogue \Ec"logue\, n. [L. ecloga, Gr. ? a selection, choice
   extracts, fr. ? to pick out, choose out; ? out + ? to gather,
   choose: cf. F. ['e]gloque, ['e]cloque. See {Ex-}, and
   {Legend}.]
   A pastoral poem, in which shepherds are introduced conversing
   with each other; a bucolic; an idyl; as, the Ecloques of
   Virgil, from which the modern usage of the word has been
   established.

Source : WordNet®

eclogue
     n : a short descriptive poem of rural or pastoral life [syn: {bucolic},
          {idyll}]