Odes

Horace

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

  • You rescue from your heir whate'er you give
  • The self you love.
  • When life is o'er, and Minos has rehearsed
  • The grand last doom,
  • Not birth, nor eloquence, nor worth, shall burst
  • Torquatus' tomb.
  • Not Dian's self can chaste Hippolytus
  • To life recall,
  • Nor Theseus free his loved Pirithous
  • From Lethe's thrall.
  • Ah Censorinus! to my comrades true
  • Rich cups, rare bronzes, gladly would I send: