Odes

Horace

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

  • So, smit by loyal passion's restless stings,
  • Rome for her Caesar yearns.
  • In safety range the cattle o'er the mead:
  • Sweet Peace, soft Plenty, swell the golden grain:
  • O'er unvex'd seas the sailors blithely speed:
  • Fair Honour shrinks from stain:
  • No guilty lusts the shrine of home defile:
  • Cleansed is the hand without, the heart within:
  • The father's features in his children smile
  • Swift vengeance follows sin.
  • Who fears the Parthian or the Scythian horde,
  • Or the rank growth that German forests yield,