Odes

Horace

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

  • Yet no hall that wealth e'er plann'd
  • Waits you more surely than the wider room
  • Traced by Death's yet greedier hand.
  • Why strain so far? you cannot leap the tomb.
  • Earth removes the impartial sod
  • Alike for beggar and for monarch's child:
  • Nor the slave of Hell's dark god
  • Convey'd Prometheus back, with bribe beguiled.