Odes

Horace

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

  • Pale Fever's stranger host and wan Decay
  • Swept o'er earth's polluted face,
  • And slow Fate quicken'd Death's once halting pace.
  • Daedalus the void air tried
  • On wings, to humankind by Heaven denied;
  • Acheron's bar gave way with ease
  • Before the arm of labouring Hercules.
  • Nought is there for man too high;