Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ODES I, 5, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poet's Biography First Line: What slender youth bedewed with liquid odours Last Line: To the stern god of sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace | ||||||||
What slender youth bedewed with liquid odours Courts thee on roses in some pleasant cave, Pyrrha? For whom bind'st thou In wreaths thy golden hair, Plain in thy neatness? O how oft shall he On faith and changed gods complain: and seas Rough with black winds and storms Unwonted shall admire: Who now enjoys thee credulous, all gold, Who always vacant always amiable Hopes thee; of flattering gales Unmindful? Hapless they To whom thou untried seem'st fair. Me in my vowed Picture the sacred wall declares t' have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ODES I, 38. AD MINISTRAM by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS ODES I, 9. TO WINTER by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS ODES II, 10 by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS ODES II, 14 by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS ODES III, 29 by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS ODES IV, 7. TO TORQUATUS. DIFFUGERE NIVES by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS CANIDIA'S ANSWER by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS CONTENTMENT by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS EPISTLE 1, 10. TO FUSCUS ARISTUS by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS EPISTLE 1.18 by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS |
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