Odes

Horace

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

  • Come, foot the Lesbian measure, while
  • The lyre I play:
  • Sing of Latona's glorious boy,
  • Sing of night's queen with crescent horn,
  • Who wings the fleeting months with joy,
  • And swells the corn.
  • And happy brides shall say, “'Twas mine,
  • When years the cyclic season brought,