Odes

Horace

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

  • That better Persian lives had spilt,
  • To youths, whose minish'd numbers feel
  • Their parents' guilt.
  • What god shall Rome invoke to stay
  • Her fall? Can suppliance overbear
  • The ear of Vesta, turn'd away
  • From chant and prayer?
  • Who comes, commission'd to atone