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In new spring, when from snowy peaks runoff
flows, and the mouldering clod crumbles under the Zephyr,
straightaway I'd hitch my bull to groan before the deep-
driven plow, its blade scoured to gleaming by the furrow.
That field alone fulfills the keen farmer's prayer
which twice sun and twice frost has felt:
its teeming harvests burst the granaries.
But before our iron carves an unknown plain,
let our study be to learn its winds and fickle sky,
the local tricks, the temper of the land,
what each zone yields, what each refuses.
Virgil was born in 70 BC in northern Italy. He wrote his Eclogues between 42 and 37 BC, when he began work on his second major poem, the Georgics. Virgil is best known for his epic the Aeneid.
Kimberly Johnson is a poet and a scholar of Renaissance literature. She is the author of two collections of poetry and the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship. Her poems, essays and translations have appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker.
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. First Edition. First Edition thus, as good as new. Georgics by Various Authors. Published by Penguin Group in 2009. Hardcover ISBN:9781846142406. Collectible item in excellent condition. Seller Inventory # 1846142406