Georgic

 1    I|         veins, lest penetrating showers,~Or fierce sun’s ravening
 2    I|     matted shade,~Pray down the showers, all vainly thou shalt eye,~
 3    I|      verge of tameless winter’s showers~With barley: then, too,
 4    I|        law conformed.~If chilly showers e’er shut the farmer’s door, ~
 5    I|      heaped and grim~With angry showers: down falls the height of
 6    I|      certain tokens, heats, and showers, and winds~That bring the
 7    I|      riot; so sweet it is,~When showers are spent, their own loved
 8    I|     shrinks mid-circle, then of showers beware;~For then the South
 9    I|        so thick a hail~In spiky showers spins rattling on the roof.~
10   II|         storms, nor blasts, nor showers~Wrench from its bed; unshaken
11   II|      leaps down~With quickening showers to his glad wife’s embrace,~
12   II|    serves for shield in pelting showers, and this~When the hot dog-star
13  III| Aquarius’ icy beam~Now sinks in showers upon the parting year.~These
14  III|         streams, while yet~With showers of Spring and rainy south-winds
15  III|  assails the sheep,~When chilly showers have probed them to the
16   IV|       slips, or shed the genial showers.~And I myself, were I not
17   IV|  befalls,~Who watch in turn for showers and cloudy skies,~Or ease
18   IV|         too far they fare,~When showers hang like to fall, nor,