Georgics

Virgil

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

  1. So sang I of the tilth of furrowed fields,
  2. Of flocks and trees, while Caesar's majesty
  3. Launched forth the levin-bolts of war by deep
  4. Euphrates, and bare rule o'er willing folk
  5. Though vanquished, and essayed the heights of heaven.
  6. I Virgil then, of sweet Parthenope
  7. The nursling, wooed the flowery walks of peace
  8. Inglorious, who erst trilled for shepherd-wights
  9. The wanton ditty, and sang in saucy youth
  10. Thee, Tityrus, 'neath the spreading beech tree's shade.