Odes

Horace

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

  • What marvel, when at those sweet airs
  • The hundred-headed beast spell-bound
  • Each black ear droops, and Furies' hairs
  • Uncoil their serpents at the sound?
  • Prometheus too and Pelops' sire
  • In listening lose the sense of woe;
  • Orion hearkens to the lyre,
  • And lets the lynx and lion go.