Horace his ode to Venus. Lib. IV. Ode I. Imitated by Mr. Pope

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- Q. HORATII FLACCI ODARUM LIB. IV. ODE. I. AD VENEREM.

- THE FIRST ODE OF THE FOURTH BOOK OF HORACE: TO VENUS.

THE FIRST ODE OF THE FOURTH BOOK OF HORACE.

HORACE HIS Ode to VENUS.

LIB. IV. ODE I.

IMITATED By Mr. POPE.

LONDON: Printed for J. WRIGHT, and Sold by J. ROBERTS in Warwick-lane, MDCCXXXVII. (Price Six Pence.)

Q. HORATII FLACCI ODARUM LIB. IV. ODE. I.
AD VENEREM.

INTER missa Venus diu

Rursus bella moves? parce precor, precor!

Non tum qualis eram, bonae

Sub regno Cynarae: Desine, dulcium

Mater saeva Cupidinum,

Circa lustra decem flectere mollibus

Jam durum imperiis: abi

Quo blandae juvenum te revocant preces.

Tempestiviùs in domo

Paulli, purpureis ales oloribus,

Comessabere Maximi,

Si torrere jecur quaeris idoneum.

Namque et nobilis & decens,

Et pro solicitis non tacitus reis,

Et centum puer artium,

Latè signa feret militiae tuae.

Et quandoque potentior

Largis muneribus riserit aemuli,

Albanos prope te lacus

Ponet marmoream, sub trabe citrea.

Illic plurima naribus

Duces thara; lyraeque & Berecynthiae

Delectabere tibiae

Mistis carminibus, non sine fistulâ.

Illic bis pueri die

Numen cum teneris virginibus tuum

Laudantes, pede candido

In morem Salium ter quatient humum.

Me nec femina, nec puer

Jam, nec spes animi credula mutui,

Nec certare juvat mero:

Nec vincire novis tempora floribus.

—Sed cur, heu! Ligurine, cur

Manat rara meas lacryma per genas?

Cur facunda parum decoro

Inter verba cadit lingua silentio?

Nocturnis te ego somniis

Jam captum teneo: jam volucrem sequor

Te, per gramina Martii

Campi, te per aquas, dure, volubiles.

THE FIRST ODE OF THE FOURTH BOOK OF HORACE:
TO VENUS.

AGAIN? new Tumults in my Breast?

Ah spare me, Venus! let me, let me rest!

I am not now, alas! the man

As in the gentle Reign of My Queen Anne.

Ah sound no more the soft alarms,

Nor circle sober fifty with thy Charms.

Mother too fierce of dear Desires!

Turn, turn to willing Hearts your wanton fires.

To Number five direct your Doves,

There spread round M**y all your blooming Loves;

Noble and young, who strikes the heart

With every sprightly, every decent part;

Equal, the injur'd to defend,

To charm the Mistress, or to fix the Friend.

He, with a hundred Arts refin'd,

Shall stretch thy Conquests over half the kind:

To him each Rival shall submit,

Make but his riches equal to his Wit.

Then shall thy Form the Marble grace,

(Thy Graecian Form) and Chloe lend the Face:

His House, embosom'd in the Grove,

Sacred to social Life and social Love,

Shall glitter o'er the pendent green,

Where Thames reflects the visionary Scene.

Thither, the silver-sounding Lyres

Shall call the smiling Loves, and young Desires;

There, every Grace and Muse shall throng,

Exalt the Dance, or animate the Song;

There, Youths and Nymphs, in consort gay,

Shall hail the rising, close the parting day.

With me, alas! those joys are o'er;

For me, the vernal Garlands bloom no more.

Adieu! fond hope of mutual fire,

The still-believing, still-renew'd desire;

Adieu! the heart-expanding bowl,

And all the kind Deceivers of the soul!

—But why? ah tell me, ah too dear!

Steals down my cheek th'involuntary Tear?

Why words so flowing, thoughts so free,

Stop, or turn nonsense at one glance of Thee?

Thee, drest in Fancy's airy beam,

Absent I follow thro' th'extended Dream,

Now, now I seize, I clasp thy charms,

And now you burst, (ah cruel!) from my arms,

And swiftly shoot along the Mall,

Or softly glide by the Canal,

Now shown by Cynthia's silver Ray,

And now, on rolling Waters snatch'd away.

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Horace his ode to Venus. Lib. IV. Ode I. Imitated by Mr. Pope

Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.

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— Horace his ode to Venus. Lib. IV. Ode I. Imitated by Mr. Pope, Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.. [2],7,[1]p. ; 2⁰. London :: printed for J. Wright, and sold by J. Roberts,. 1737.. [Parallel Latin and English texts.] [Reproduction of original from the British Library.] [Foxon, P896] [Griffith, 443] [English Short Title Catalog, ESTCT5677.] [Electronic data. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. Page image (PNG). Digitized image of the microfilm version produced in Woodbridge, CT by Research Publications, 1982-2002 (later known as Primary Source Microfilm, an imprint of the Gale Group).]

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