Odes

Horace

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

  • Thee Spanish tribes, unused to yield,
  • Mede, Indian, Scyth that knows no home,
  • Acknowledge, sword at once and shield
  • Of Italy and queenly Rome.
  • Ister to thee, and Tanais fleet,
  • And Nile that will not tell his birth,
  • To thee the monstrous seas that beat
  • On Britain's coast, the end of earth,
  • To thee the proud Iberians bow,
  • And Gauls, that scorn from death to flee;
  • The fierce Sygambrian bends his brow,
  • And drops his arms to worship thee.