Odes

Horace

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

  • That spot, those happy heights desire
  • Our sojourn; there, when life shall end,
  • Your tear shall dew my yet warm pyre,
  • Your bard and friend.
  • O, oft with me in troublous time
  • Involved, when Brutus warr'd in Greece,
  • Who gives you back to your own clime
  • And your own gods, a man of peace,