Georgic

 1    I|         man bidding, bore.~He to black serpents gave their venom-bane,~
 2    I|    drenching them~With nitre and black oil-lees, that the fruit~
 3    I|         stiff with blue ice,~And black with scowling storm-clouds,
 4    I|       that knows no seasons, her black pall~Thick-mantling fold
 5    I|   instead~A dented mill-stone or black lump of pitch.~The moon
 6   II|         no clime but India bears~Black ebony; the branch of frankincense~
 7   II|     Rough tufa and chalk too, by black water-worms~Gnawed through
 8   II|      serve to warn thee which is black,~Or what the hue of any.
 9  III|         Wound follows wound; the black blood laves their limbs;~
10  III| north-west, or whence up-springs~Black Auster, that glooms heaven
11  III|      branches, or where huddling black~Ilex on ilex cowers in awful
12  III|           Neath his moist palate black, reject him, lest~He sully
13  III|       chattering frogs~Crams the black void of his insatiate maw.~
14  III|       strong hellebores, bitumen black.~Yet ne’er doth kindlier
15  III|      from either nostril streams~Black blood; a rough tongue clogs
16   IV|  sevenfold branching mouths~With black mud fattens and makes Aegypt
17   IV|           eyes.~Round them, with black slime choked and hideous