The Poems of VirgilLongmans, Green and Company, 1888 - 424 pages |
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Page 14
... stars , as only a mother can . None were there in those dreary days , Daphnis , to feed the oxen , and drive them down to the cool streams ; no beast was there that tasted the river , or touched the blades of grass . Daphnis , thy death ...
... stars , as only a mother can . None were there in those dreary days , Daphnis , to feed the oxen , and drive them down to the cool streams ; no beast was there that tasted the river , or touched the blades of grass . Daphnis , thy death ...
Page 15
... stars ; a lovely flock I had to keep , but I was more lovely than they . ' Me . Sweet is your strain to my ears , heavenly poet , as is sleep to tired limbs on the grass , as is the quenching of thirst in mid - day heat in the stream ...
... stars ; a lovely flock I had to keep , but I was more lovely than they . ' Me . Sweet is your strain to my ears , heavenly poet , as is sleep to tired limbs on the grass , as is the quenching of thirst in mid - day heat in the stream ...
Page 20
... stars , till Vesper gave the word to fold the flocks and report the number , and began his unwelcome march over Olympus . ECLOGUE VIL MELIBEUS . Daphnis happened just to have seated himself under a holm oak that gave tongue to the wind ...
... stars , till Vesper gave the word to fold the flocks and report the number , and began his unwelcome march over Olympus . ECLOGUE VIL MELIBEUS . Daphnis happened just to have seated himself under a holm oak that gave tongue to the wind ...
Page 28
... stars . ' L. If you would have your swarms fail to light on the yews of Corsica , and your heifers swell their ... star of Cæsar , Dione's darling , has begun its march — a star to make the corn - fields glad with pro- duce , and the ...
... stars . ' L. If you would have your swarms fail to light on the yews of Corsica , and your heifers swell their ... star of Cæsar , Dione's darling , has begun its march — a star to make the corn - fields glad with pro- duce , and the ...
Page 33
... star suits best for turning up the soil , and marrying the vine to the elm ; what care oxen need ; what is the method of breeding cattle ; and what weight of men's experience preserves the frugal common- wealth of bees : such is the ...
... star suits best for turning up the soil , and marrying the vine to the elm ; what care oxen need ; what is the method of breeding cattle ; and what weight of men's experience preserves the frugal common- wealth of bees : such is the ...
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