Georgic

 1    I|        If by your bounty holpen earth once changed~Chaonian acorn
 2    I|     war-horse first~Sprang from earth’s womb at thy great trident’
 3    I|         Caesar, and to take the earth in charge,~That so the mighty
 4    I|       and here the grape,~There earth is green with tender growth
 5    I|      Deucalion on the unpeopled earth~Cast stones, whence men,
 6    I|      suns of summer; but if the earth~Less fruitful just ere Arcturus
 7    I|        by change~The travailing earth is lightened, but stint
 8    I|      like repose is gained,~Nor earth meanwhile uneared and thankless
 9    I|  crackling flames;~Whether that earth therefrom some hidden strength~
10    I|       with stroke on stroke~The earth assails, and makes the field
11    I|    stock~They gathered, and the earth of her own will~All things
12    I|   hollows, and all the swarm~Of earth’s unsightly creatures; or
13    I|         is to hide~Your flax in earth, and poppy, Ceresjoy,~
14    I|         above the plough,~While earth, yet dry, forbids not, and
15    I|        the whole year’s hope~To earth that would not. Many have
16    I|        Orcus and the Eumenides;~Earth then in awful labour brought
17    I|         both to set~The vine in earth, and take and tame the steer,~
18    I|     levin; through all her bulk~Earth at the hurly quakes; the
19    I|   eternal; at that time~Howbeit earth also, and the ocean-plains,~
20    I|    streams stand still,~And the earth yawns asunder, ivory weeps~
21    I|        there anigh,~Heaving the earth up with his curved plough,~
22   II|    restore the topmost shoot to earth~That gave it being. Nay,
23   II|   culture the wild fruits, lest earth~Lie idle. O blithe to make
24   II|      wind’s chill.~Mark too the earth by outland tillers tamed,~
25   II|         Ocean’s near neighbour, earth’s remotest nook,~Where not
26   II|       be sunk~Deep in the solid earth, then cast the mould~All
27   II| rippling sheen of arms~The wide earth flickers, nor yet in grisly
28   II|        since not otherwise will earth afford~Vigour to all alike,
29   II|     tear;~So deep their love of earth; nor wound the plants~With
30   II|      they recover, and from the earth beneath~Spring to like verdure;
31   II|    plant fix its frozen root to earth.~Best sow your vineyards
32   II|    Spring the groves;~In Spring earth swells and claims the fruitful
33   II|      loves renew;~Then the boon earth yields increase, and the
34   II|         Even so, methinks, when Earth to being sprang,~Dawned
35   II|   heaven’s relenting arms~Yield earth a welcome.~For the rest,
36   II|         rich, and with abundant earth~Take heed to hide them,
37   II|      yet remains to cleave ~The earth about their roots persistently,~
38   II|     soil, and borne the breeze.~Earth of herself, with hooked
39   II|         clash of arms all-equal earth~Pours from the ground herself
40   II|  reverend sires: with them from earth~Departing justice her last
41   II| slaughtered bulls,~Such life on earth did golden Saturn lead.~
42  III|         instant pinion sweeping earth and main.~A steed like this
43  III|         bed.~Nay, every race on earth of men, and beasts, ~And
44  III|       return;~And that the hard earth under them with straw~And
45  III|      Heaped seven ells high the earth lies featureless:~Still
46  III|    Spring and rainy south-winds earth~Is moistened, lo! he haunts
47  III|       the fens are parched, and earth with heat~Is gaping, forth
48  III|       the springs, and paws the earth~With ceaseless hoof: low
49  III|       and his neck~Sinks to the earth with drooping weight. What
50  III| corruption, till men learn~With earth to cover them, in pits to
51   IV|         comely forehead for the earth to see,~With foot of scorn
52   IV|      streams beneath the mighty earth that glide,~Phasis and Lycus,
Best viewed with any browser at 800x600 or 768x1024 on Tablet PC
IntraText® (VA1) - Some rights reserved by EuloTech SRL - 1996-2009. Content in this page is licensed under a Creative Commons License