Georgics

Virgil

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

  1. The slips once planted, yet remains to cleave
  2. The earth about their roots persistently,
  3. And toss the cumbrous hoes, or task the soil
  4. With burrowing plough-share, and ply up and down
  5. Your labouring bullocks through the vineyard's midst,
  6. Then too smooth reeds and shafts of whittled wand,
  7. And ashen poles and sturdy forks to shape,
  8. Whereby supported they may learn to mount,
  9. Laugh at the gales, and through the elm-tops win
  10. From story up to story.