georgic

Example Sentences

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God’s promise to Noah after the Flood, an Old Testament blessing, joins with hints of the georgic and pastoral poetry of Horace and Virgil.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

He had collected his scattered odes and ballads, and published them, with his ambitious georgic, The Hop Garden, in the handsome quarto before us.

From Gossip in a Library by Gosse, Edmund

I am hurrying on to Rome, and I have no time to write a georgic.

From The Path to Rome by Belloc, Hilaire

Such unpoetic toils never could have inspired the georgic muse of Vergil or Thomson.

From The Awakening of China by Martin, W. A. P. (William Alexander Parsons)