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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A ROMAN ROUND-ROBIN, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Flaccus, you write us charming songs
Last Line: Nunc vale! Verbum sap.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.)


AFTER HORACE, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What asks the bard? He prays for nought
Last Line: Or not!
Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D.
Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Muses


AFTER HORACE: THE PASTOR'S WIFE DELIVERS SOUP, by NOLA GARRETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Don't ask, patricia stone, when you will join
Last Line: Arrange myself -- the pastor's coming home
Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights


AN ALLUSION TO HORACE, THE TENTH SATYR OF THE FIRST BOOK, by JOHN WILMOT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Well, sir, 'tis granted I said dryden's rhymes
Last Line: Approve my sense: I count their censure fame.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of
Subject(s): Busby, Richard (1606-1695); Dryden, John (1631-1700); Etherege, Sir George (1635-1692); Godolphin, Sidney (1610-1643); Horace (65-8 B.c.); Otway, Thomas (1652-1685); Scroope, Sir Carr (d. 1680); Sedley, Sir Charles (1639-1701); Settle, Elkanah (1648-1724


AN EPISTLE TO A FRIEND PROPOSING A CORRECTION IN PASSAGE FROM HORACE, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So then you think acrisius really sold
Last Line: And jupiter and venus laugh'd at both.
Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Translating & Interpreting


ART OF COOKERY; IN IMITATION OF HORACE'S ART OF POETRY, SELS., by WILLIAM KING                       
Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.)


CEDES COEMPTIS SALTIBUS ..., by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This phrase of 'riches built on high'
Last Line: Give us a better if you can.
Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Language; Latin; Universities & Colleges; Words; Vocabulary


CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE (COMPLETE), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not in those climes where I have late been straying
Last Line: If such there were -- with you, the moral of his strain!
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Courage; Death; Homosexuality; Horace (65-8 B.c.); Love; Poetry And Poets; Sea; Travel


EPIGRAM: EHEU FUGACES, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What horace says is / eheu fugaces
Last Line: Sighing I murmur, 'o mihi praeteritos!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas
Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Language; Old Age; Words; Vocabulary


EVERLASTING TRIFLES, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A curl, a scarf-pin, or some foolish thing
Last Line: Gold sets the world astir.
Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.)


FOR THE EIGHTH OF DECEMBER, by GEORGE MEASON WHICHER    Poem Text                    
First Line: This festal day, two thousand times returning
Last Line: In horace's and in our estimation.
Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.)


HARLEQUIN-HORACE: CORRUPTION OF NATIVE MUSIC BY FOREIGNERS, by JAMES MILLER (1706-1769)    Poem Source                    
First Line: In days of old, when englishmen were - men
Last Line: Make love in tune, or thro' the gamut rant
Variant Title(s): Italian Oper
Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Music And Musicians; Opera


HINTS FROM HORACE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who would not laugh, if lawrence, hired to grace
Last Line: And gorges like a lawyer -- or a leech.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.)


HOMAGE TO QUINTUS HORATIUS (5), by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O my darling, more dark and lovely
Last Line: Each bitter syllable of my former rage
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Love


HOMAGE TO QUINTUS HORATIUS (6), by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why should shame or moderation set any
Last Line: Bearing - as do all things beyond our %power to put right
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Family Life; Horace (65-8 B.c.); Love


HORACE, by JOHN OSBORNE SARGENT    Poem Text                    
First Line: He who would echo horace's lays
Last Line: The roman eagles never flew.
Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.)


HORACE TO CHLOE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dear chloe, this rose
Last Line: Give heed to my wooing!
Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Love; Odes (as Poetic Form)


HORACE'S INTEGER VITAE, IMITATED, SELECTION, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The man that is drunk, is void of all care
Last Line: And boldly defies bother the proctor and devil.
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Horace (65-8 B.c.)


HORACE, BOOK I, ODE 14 PARAPHRASED & INSCRIBED TO IRELAND, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Poor floating isle, tossed on ill fortune's waves
Last Line: For thee alone they lie the island round
Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.)


HORACE, LIB. I, EPIST. IX. IMITATED, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear dick, howe'er it comes into his head
Last Line: And, in one word, a good man and a true.
Subject(s): Fortune; Horace (65-8 B.c.); Soul


I KNOW HOW EVERY POET, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Feels about his new poem %(and usually every poem)
Last Line: But I don't believe him
Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Poetry And Poets; Writing And Writers


NON EST MEUM, SI MUGIAT AFRICUS MALUS PROCELLIS ..., by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This passage, sirs, may put ye, one would think
Last Line: I thank my stars, I'm rowing safe to shore.
Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Poetry & Poets


NONUMQUE PREMATUR IN ANNUM, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye poets, and critics, and men of the schools
Last Line: And by all future printers unumque be printed.
Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Translating & Interpreting


NUNC ET CAMPUS, ET AREAEUM ..., by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By campus and by areae, my friends
Last Line: What further use have all the odes that horace writ?
Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Odes (as Poetic Form); Poetry & Poets


OBSERVATIONS ON A FEW VERSES OF HORACE, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wheneer this horace comes into one's hand
Last Line: Pray solve the doubts on these decembrian nones.
Subject(s): Hate; Horace (65-8 B.c.)


ODE. IN IMITATION OF HORACE HIS ODE I, 5, by ABRAHAM COWLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To whom now, pyrrha, art thou kinde?
Last Line: My consecrated vessel hangs at last.
Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.)


ODE: IN IMITATION OF HORACE, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How long, deluded, albion, wilt thou lie
Last Line: And europe is redeemed, and william reigns!
Subject(s): Fate; Fear; Heaven; Horace (65-8 B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Destiny; Paradise


ODES I, 9. TO WINTER, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold yon mountain's hoary height
Last Line: These, these are joyes the gods for youth ordain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Variant Title(s): To Thaliarchus
Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Love; Translating & Interpreting; Winter; Youth


ODES III, 29, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Descended of an ancient line
Last Line: Within some little winding creek; and see the storm a shore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Variant Title(s): Imitation Of Horace;to Maecenas
Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Translating & Interpreting


ODES IV, 9 (PART) TO DOCTOR WILLIAM KING, LATE LORD ARCHBISHOP, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Virtue conceal'd within our breast
Last Line: With life his country, or his friend
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Variant Title(s): Addressed To Archbishop Kin
Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.)


ODES XXII, 1, by ROYALL TYLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Graced with a temper void of affectation
Last Line: Sweetly conversing.
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.)


ODES. TO HIMSELFE, AND THE HARPE, by MICHAEL DRAYTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And why not I, as hee
Last Line: Although in skelton's ryme.
Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Pindar (522-440 B.c.)


READING HORACE, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, were we good when we are wise!
Last Line: Bring back to me the brooks and birds!
Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.)


ROMAE, PRINCIPIS URBIUM ..., by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is one ode, and much the best of two
Last Line: The nicer taste of liquid verse, who not.
Subject(s): Children; Horace (65-8 B.c.); Odes (as Poetic Form); Poetry & Poets; Childhood


SATIRE: 2.6. RETREAT FROM AFFAIRS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I often wish'd, that I had clear
Last Line: And there in secret oblivion drown %those cares that haunt a court and town
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Variant Title(s): Horace, Lib. 2, Sat. 6; Horace Imitate
Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.)


THE EIGHTH ODE OF THE SECOND BOOK OF HORACE IMITATED, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If ever justice with her iron hand
Last Line: Debauch'd, like danäe, with a golden show'r?
Subject(s): Deception; Great Britain; Horace (65-8 B.c.); Justice; Plagiarism; Poetry & Poets; Revenge


THE FOREGOING CRITICISM, IN ENGLISH VERSE, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The whole design of this horatian strain
Last Line: Read—fruge lares, avidasque parcas.
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Horace (65-8 B.c.)


THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF 27 B.C., by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For sins ancestral, o thou guiltless roman
Last Line: And gosh! Our kids are getting even worse!
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Soldiers; Tyranny & Tyrants; War; Dictators


THE HOME OF HORACE, by GEORGE MEASON WHICHER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The cold licenza through the valley brawls
Last Line: This worse than ruined house of thine to know!
Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.)


THE LOVES OF HORACE, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For which one, horace, did you really care
Last Line: For these fair, many maids was just—in ink!
Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Love


THE REPLY OF Q. HORATIUS FLACCUS TO A ROMAN 'ROUND-ROBIN', by ALFRED AUSTIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Good friends, you urge my odes grow trite
Last Line: Well, -- gentlemen, good morning!
Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Poetry & Poets


THE TRUTH ABOUT HORACE, by EUGENE FIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is very aggravating
Last Line: And maecenas paid the freight!
Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.)


TO HIS FRIEND, BEN JONSON, OF HIS HORACE MADE ENGLISH, by EDWARD HERBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas not enough, ben jonson, to be thought
Last Line: To be the horace of our times and his.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord
Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets; Translating & Interpreting


TO LICINIUS (HORACE PARAPHRASED), by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Licinius, wouldst thou wisely steer
Last Line: And timely reef thy sails.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Storms


TO MRS. THROCKMORTON, ON HER BEAUTIFUL TRANSCRIPT OF HORACE, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Maria, could horace have guessed
Last Line: Nothing ever was written so well.
Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Translating & Interpreting


TO Q(UINTUS) H(ORATIUS) F(LACCUS), by CHARLES HENRY LUDERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To q. H. F. The idle band
Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.)


TO Q. H. F., by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Horatius flaccus, b.C. 8
Last Line: Unmatched, unmet, we have not known.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Poetry & Poets


UT TUTO AB ATRIS CORPORE VIPERIS ..., by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Horace, an infant, (here he interweaves
Last Line: "for bears read goats""—pro ursis lege hircis"
Subject(s): Babies; Horace (65-8 B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Infants


WITH HORACE I TAKE MY STAND BESIDE TWO ROCKS, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: He entered a stone house and struck off %his fire upon stone
Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.)


WRITTEN IN A COPY OF HORACE, by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Could you tell from all his satires
Last Line: Say, then, chloe, could you tell?
Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Satire (as Poetic Genre)