Odes

Horace

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

  • Should aught but death the prisoner's chain
  • Unrivet. “I have seen,” he said,
  • “Rome's eagle in a Punic fane,
  • And armour, ne'er a blood-drop shed,