Odes Horace Horace. The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace. Conington, John, translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1882. But these are not my riches: your desireSuch luxury craves not, and your means disdain:A poet's strain you love; a poet's strainAccept, and learn the value of the lyre.Not public gravings on a marble base,Whence comes a second life to men of mightE'en in the tomb: not Hannibal's swift flight,Nor those fierce threats flung back into his face,