Odes

Horace

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

Each Roman's wealth was little worth,

His country's much; no colonnade

For private pleasance wooed the North

With cool “prolixity of shade.”

None might the casual sod disdain

To roof his home; a town alone,

At public charge, a sacred fane

Were honour'd with the pomp of stone.