Odes Horace Horace. The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace. Conington, John, translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1882. Courts you on roses in some grotto's shade?Fair Pyrrha, say, for whomYour yellow hair you braid,So trim, so simple! Ah! how oft shall heLament that faith can fail, that gods can change,Viewing the rough black seaWith eyes to tempests strange,Who now is basking in your golden smile,