Odes

Horace

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

  • In sacred awe the silent dead
  • Attend on each: but when the song
  • Of combat tells and tyrants fled,
  • Keen ears, press'd shoulders, closer throng.
  • What marvel, when at those sweet airs
  • The hundred-headed beast spell-bound
  • Each black ear droops, and Furies' hairs
  • Uncoil their serpents at the sound?