Odes

Horace

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

  • Goddess, whose Pierian art
  • The lyre's sweet sounds can modulate and measure,
  • Who to dumb fish canst impart
  • The music of the swan, if such thy pleasure:
  • O, 'tis all of thy dear grace
  • That every finger points me out in going
  • Lyrist of the Roman race;
  • Breath, power to charm, if mine, are thy bestowing!
  • E'en as the lightning's minister,
  • Whom Jove o'er all the feather'd breed
  • Made sovereign, having proved him sure
  • Erewhile on auburn Ganymede;