Odes

Horace

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

  • None might the casual sod disdain
  • To roof his home; a town alone,
  • At public charge, a sacred fane
  • Were honour'd with the pomp of stone.
  • For ease, in wide Aegean caught,
  • The sailor prays, when clouds are hiding
  • The moon, nor shines of starlight aught
  • For seaman's guiding: