Georgics

Virgil

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

  1. Come then, and learn what tilth to each belongs
  2. According to their kinds, ye husbandmen,
  3. And tame with culture the wild fruits, lest earth
  4. Lie idle. O blithe to make all Ismarus
  5. One forest of the wine-god, and to clothe
  6. With olives huge Tabernus! And be thou
  7. At hand, and with me ply the voyage of toil
  8. I am bound on, O my glory, O thou that art
  9. Justly the chiefest portion of my fame,
  10. Maecenas, and on this wide ocean launched
  11. Spread sail like wings to waft thee. Not that I
  12. With my poor verse would comprehend the whole,
  13. Nay, though a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths
  14. Were mine, a voice of iron; be thou at hand,
  15. Skirt but the nearer coast-line; see the shore
  16. Is in our grasp; not now with feigned song
  17. Through winding bouts and tedious preludings
  18. Shall I detain thee.