Odes

Horace

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

  • Not his to lie in covert pent
  • Of the false steed, and sudden fall
  • On Priam's ill-starr'd merriment
  • In bower and hail:
  • His ruthless arm in broad bare day
  • The infant from the breast had torn,
  • Nay, given to flame, ah, well a way!
  • The babe unborn:
  • But, won by Venus' voice and thine,
  • Relenting Jove Aeneas will'd
  • With other omens more benign
  • New walls to build.
  • Sweet tuner of the Grecian lyre,
  • Whose locks are laved in Xanthus' dews,
  • Blooming Agyieus! help, inspire
  • My Daunian Muse!
  • 'Tis Phoebus, Phoebus gifts my tongue
  • With minstrel art and minstrel fires:
  • Come, noble youths and maidens sprung
  • From noble sires,