Odes

Horace

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

  • O, 'twas a gallant sight to see
  • The shocks that beat upon the brave
  • Who chose to perish and be free!
  • As south winds scourge the rebel wave
  • When through rent clouds the Pleiads weep,
  • So keen his force to smite, and smite
  • The foe, or make his charger leap
  • Through the red furnace of the fight.
  • Thus Daunia's ancient river fares,
  • Proud Aufidus, with bull-like horn,
  • When swoln with choler he prepares
  • A deluge for the fields of corn.