Medulla Poetarum Romanorum Or, the Most Beautiful and Instructive Passages of the Roman Poets. Being a Collection, (Disposed under proper Heads,) Of such Descriptions, Allusions, Comparisons, Characters, and Sentiments, as may best serve to shew the Religion, Learning, Politicks, Arts, Customs, Opinions, Manners, and Circumstances of the Antients. With Translations of the same in English Verse. By Mr. Henry Baker |
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Rain.
See Flood.
Out flies the South, with dropping Wings, and shroudsHis dreadful Visage in a Night of Clouds.
His white Hairs stream, his Beard is swell'd with Show'rs,
Mists bind his Brows, Rain from his Bosom pours.
As his broad Hand the hanging Clouds constrains,
They roar, and scatter in descending Rains.
Iris extends her Bow of various Dies,
And feeds the weeping Clouds with new Supplies.
The Corn is lodg'd: despairing mourns the Swain;
And the long Labours of the Year are vain.—
Jupiter Pluvius, or the Rainy, is represented in this Manner upon the Antonine Pillar at Rome. See Montfaucon's Antiquities, Vol. I. Plate ix.
—Black with rushing Rain
A Tempest rag'd enormous, and the Hills
And Fields with Thunder shook: o'er all the Sky
A Show'r with Water dark, and thicken'd Winds
Turbid descends.—
A Tempest rag'd enormous, and the Hills
And Fields with Thunder shook: o'er all the Sky
A Show'r with Water dark, and thicken'd Winds
Turbid descends.—
As when a Tempest, thick with patt'ring Hail,
Precipitate descends: from all the Fields
Flies ev'ry Traveller, and lab'ring Hind,
For Shelter safe, or to a River's Bank,
Or to the hollow of some lofty Rock:
There hide secure, while pour'd upon the Earth
The Tempest rages: till the Sun restor'd
Permits them to renew the Toils of Day.—
Precipitate descends: from all the Fields
Flies ev'ry Traveller, and lab'ring Hind,
For Shelter safe, or to a River's Bank,
Or to the hollow of some lofty Rock:
There hide secure, while pour'd upon the Earth
The Tempest rages: till the Sun restor'd
Permits them to renew the Toils of Day.—
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