Odes

Horace

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

  • Where now that beauty? where those movements? where
  • That colour? what of her, of her is left,
  • Who, breathing Love's own air,
  • Me of myself bereft,
  • Who reign'd in Cinara's stead, a fair, fair face,
  • Queen of sweet arts? but Fate to Cinara gave
  • A life of little space;
  • And now she cheats the grave