Odes

Horace

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

  • 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,
  • And orchards saturate with shifting streams!
  • Look how the clear fresh south from heaven removes
  • The tempest, nor with rain perpetual teems!
  • You too be wise, my Plancus: life's worst cloud
  • Will melt in air, by mellow wine allay'd,
  • Dwell you in camps, with glittering banners proud,
  • Or 'neath your Tibur's canopy of shade.