Eclogues, The Georgics

Download or read book Eclogues, The Georgics written by Virgil Virgil and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes the cornfield smile; beneath what star Maecenas, it is meet to turn the sod Or marry elm with vine; how tend the steer; What pains for cattle-keeping, or what proof Of patient trial serves for thrifty bees;- Such are my themes. O universal lights Most glorious! ye that lead the gliding year Along the sky, Liber and Ceres mild, If by your bounty holpen earth once changed Chaonian acorn for the plump wheat-ear, And mingled with the grape, your new-found gift, The draughts of Achelous; and ye Fauns To rustics ever kind, come foot it, Fauns And Dryad-maids together; your gifts I sing.