Odes

Horace

Horace. The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace. Conington, John, translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1882.

  • Telephus—you praise him still,
  • His waxen arms, his rosy-tinted neck;
  • Ah! and all the while I thrill
  • With jealous pangs I cannot, cannot check
  • See, my colour comes and goes,
  • My poor heart flutters, Lydia, and the dew,
  • Down my cheek soft stealing, shows
  • What lingering torments rack me through and through.