Georgics

Virgil

Vergil. The Poems of Vergil. Rhoades, James, translator. London: Oxford University Press, 1921.

  1. Thus far the tilth of fields and stars of heaven;
  2. Now will I sing thee, Bacchus, and, with thee,
  3. The forest's young plantations and the fruit
  4. Of slow-maturing olive. Hither haste,
  5. O Father of the wine-press; all things here
  6. Teem with the bounties of thy hand; for thee
  7. With viny autumn laden blooms the field,
  8. And foams the vintage high with brimming vats;
  9. Hither, O Father of the wine-press, come,
  10. And stripped of buskin stain thy bared limbs
  11. In the new must with me.