The Poems of VirgilLongmans, Green and Company, 1888 - 424 pages |
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Page 75
... shield your teeming herds from its sting , letting them graze only when the sun is just up or the stars are ushering in the night . After delivery , the farmer's whole care is transferred to the calves . At once he brands them with ...
... shield your teeming herds from its sting , letting them graze only when the sun is just up or the stars are ushering in the night . After delivery , the farmer's whole care is transferred to the calves . At once he brands them with ...
Page 77
... shield them with all your care from the stings of secret passion , whether your preference is for the service of oxen or of horses . To that end , the bull is sent into distant exile in solitary pastures , with a mountain before and a ...
... shield them with all your care from the stings of secret passion , whether your preference is for the service of oxen or of horses . To that end , the bull is sent into distant exile in solitary pastures , with a mountain before and a ...
Page 95
... shield him with their bodies from the shock of battle , and in the shower of wounds seek a glorious death . · From these tokens , and with these instances to guide them , some have said that bees have received a share of the divine ...
... shield him with their bodies from the shock of battle , and in the shower of wounds seek a glorious death . · From these tokens , and with these instances to guide them , some have said that bees have received a share of the divine ...
Page 111
... shields and helms , and bodies of the brave ! ' Such words as he flung wildly forth , a blast roaring from the north strikes his sail full in front and lifts the billows to the stars . Shattered are the oars ; then the prow turns and ...
... shields and helms , and bodies of the brave ! ' Such words as he flung wildly forth , a blast roaring from the north strikes his sail full in front and lifts the billows to the stars . Shattered are the oars ; then the prow turns and ...
Page 125
... shields , is Penthesilea in her martial frenzy , blazing out , the centre of thousands , as she loops up her protruded breast with a girdle of gold , the warrior queen , and nerves herself to the shock of combat , a maiden against men ...
... shields , is Penthesilea in her martial frenzy , blazing out , the centre of thousands , as she loops up her protruded breast with a girdle of gold , the warrior queen , and nerves herself to the shock of combat , a maiden against men ...
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