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bucolic

Synonym for pastoral poem. Bucolics is assumed to have been the title that Virgil originally gave to his pastoral poems. Theocritus wrote a collection of bucolics, full of the simple charms of country life. Ronsard gathered his eclogues together under the title Les Bucoliques, but otherwise the term has not been used by modern poets.
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I tire of the labour of thinking, and, when the table is finished, start practical jokes and set all playing at games, which we carry on with bucolic boisterousness.
John Barleycorn by London, Jack View in context
He had entertained no notion, when doomed as he had thought to an unintellectual bucolic life, that such charms as he beheld in this idyllic creature would be found behind the scenes.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context
Well, play he would; he'd show 'em; even despite the elated prophesies made of how swiftly he would be trimmed--prophesies coupled with descriptions of the bucolic game he would play and of his wild and woolly appearance.
Burning Daylight by London, Jack View in context
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