Odes

Horace

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

  • Cease that proud temper: Venus loves it not:
  • The rope may break, the wheel may backward turn:
  • Begetting you, no Tuscan sire begot
  • Penelope the stern.
  • O, though no gift, no “prevalence of prayer,”
  • Nor lovers' paleness deep as violet,
  • Nor husband, smit with a Pierian fair,
  • Move you, have pity yet!