Odes

Horace

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

  • The daily burden of unending song,
  • And search for wreaths the olive's rifled bower:
  • The praise of Juno sounds from many a tongue,
  • Telling of Argos' steeds, Mycenae's gold.
  • For me stern Sparta forges no such spell,
  • No, nor Larissa's plain of richest mould,
  • As bright Albunea echoing from her cell.
  • O headlong Anio! O Tiburnian groves,