Odes

Horace

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

  • Your Coan silks, your jewels bright as stars,
  • Ah no! they bring not back the days of old,
  • In public calendars
  • By flying Time enroll'd.
  • Where now that beauty? where those movements? where
  • That colour? what of her, of her is left,
  • Who, breathing Love's own air,
  • Me of myself bereft,