Odes

Horace

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

  • At sober sunrise; thus at mellow eve,
  • When ocean hides the day.
  • Thou who didst make thy vengeful might
  • To Niobe and Tityos known,
  • And Peleus' son, when Troy's tall height
  • Was nigh his own,
  • Victorious else, for thee no peer,
  • Though, strong in his sea-parent's power,