Odes

Horace

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

  • More proud as lord of what the great despise
  • Than if the wheat thresh'd on Apulia's floor
  • I hoarded all in my huge granaries,
  • 'Mid vast possessions poor.
  • A clear fresh stream, a little field o'ergrown
  • With shady trees, a crop that ne'er deceives,
  • Pass, though men know it not, their wealth, that own
  • All Afric's golden sheaves.