Odes

Horace

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

  • The warrior, sure, redeem'd by gold,
  • Will fight the bolder! Aye, you heap
  • On baseness loss. The hues of old
  • Revisit not the wool we steep;
  • And genuine worth, expell'd by fear,
  • Returns not to the worthless slave.
  • Break but her meshes, will the deer
  • Assail you? then will he be brave