Or in the daylight hours, at night they press; What darkling or at sunset, this ere morn They bear...
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His ancient royalties behind him lie. So with all heed his strength he practiseth, And nightlong m...
Ere ten years ended, after four begins; Their residue of days nor apt to teem, Nor strong for plou...
Waving with box, Narycian groves of pitch; Oh! blithe the sight of fields beholden not To rake or ...
Here turned its shoulder to the northern pole; So strong is custom formed in early years. Whether ...
Willows by water-courses have their birth, Alders in miry fens; on rocky heights The barren mounta...
Etna, her furnace-walls asunder riven, In billowy floods boil o'er the Cyclops' fields, And roll d...
Bristle already, and the milky corn On its green stalk is swelling? Many a time, When now the farm...
Wherefore, unless thou shalt with ceaseless rake The weeds pursue, with shouting scare the birds, ...
29 BC THE GEORGICS by Virgil GEORGIC I What makes the cornfield smile; beneath what star Maecen...
Forgets to ward, and waits the coming blow. Astonish'd while he stands, and fix'd with fear, Aim'd...
Your plant has honor'd, which your foes profan'd, Propitious hear my pious pray'r!" He said, Nor w...
These eyes beheld Murranus bite the ground: Mighty the man, and mighty was the wound. I heard my d...
What chiefs and champions fell on either side, In combat slain, or by what deaths they died; Whom ...
Hard enterprise! and well he might require Achilles' car and horses, for his hire: But, met upon t...