• Cover Image

The Georgics

By: Virgil

... The Georgics & The Eclogues of Virgil is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Porta... ...le as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Georgics & The Eclogues of Virgil , the Pennsylvania State University, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Ha... .....................................................102 29 BC THE GEORGICS by Virgil GEORGIC I What makes the cornfield smile; beneath what star Maecen... ...less harvest crops Burst, see! the barns. But ere our metal cleave An unknown surface, heed we to forelearn The winds and varyi... ...; Nor from like cuttings are Crustumian pears And Syrian, and the heavy hand fillers. Not the same vintage from our trees hangs down, Which Lesbos fro... ...s it forth at will, Which, ever in its own green grass arrayed, Mars not the metal with salt scurf of rust That shall thine elms with merry vines enw... ...in and out Let the blasts drive, some dip i’ the water trough The sputtering metal: with the anvil’s weight Groans Etna: they alternately in time With...

Read More