Odes From Horace. - [1]to Telephus. Book The Third, Ode The Nineteenth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLML NONO HPHP QRQR STST EPUP HVHV WBXB YZYZ IA2B2C2 ED2E2D2 EF2EF2 G2H2G2H2 I2J2I2J2 K2BK2B| The number of the vanish'd years | A |
| That mark each famous Grecian reign | B |
| This night my Telephus appears | A |
| Thy solemn pleasure to explain | B |
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| Or else assiduously to dwell | C |
| In conscious eloquence elate | D |
| On those who conquer'd those who fell | C |
| At sacred Troy's devoted gate | D |
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| But at what price the cask so rare | E |
| Of luscious chian may be ours | F |
| Who shall the tepid baths prepare | E |
| And who shall strew the blooming flowers | F |
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| Beneath what roof we next salute | G |
| And when shall smile these gloomy skies | H |
| Thy wondrous eloquence is mute | G |
| Nor here may graver topics rise | H |
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| Fill a bright bumper to the Moon | I |
| She's new auspicious be her birth | J |
| One to the Midnight 't is our noon | I |
| Of jocund thought and festal mirth | J |
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| And one to him for whom the feasts | K |
| This night are held with poignant gust | L |
| MURENA whom his Rome invests | M |
| With solemn honors sacred trust | L |
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| Kind omens shall his voice convey | N |
| That may each rising care beguile | O |
| Propitious fled the Birds to day | N |
| Will Love be ours and Fortune smile | O |
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| Arrange the cups of various size | H |
| The least containing bumpers three | P |
| And nine the rest Come no disguise | H |
| Nor yet constraint the choice is free | P |
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| All but the BARD's the bowl of nine | Q |
| He is in duty bound to fill | R |
| The Muses number to decline | Q |
| Were treason at Aonia's hill | R |
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| For here the Sisters shall preside | S |
| So they allow us leave to laugh | T |
| Unzon'd the Graces round us glide | S |
| While we the liquid ruby quaff | T |
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| Yet they in kind and guardian care | E |
| Dreading left wild inebriate glee | P |
| With broils disturb our light career | U |
| Would stint us to their number three | P |
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| Away ye Prudes the caution wise | H |
| Becomes not this convivial hour | V |
| That every dull restraint defies | H |
| And laughs at all their frigid power | V |
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| Thou say'st I rave and true thou say'st | W |
| Nor must thou check the flowing vein | B |
| For sprightly nonsense suits him best | X |
| Whom grave reflection leads to pain | B |
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| Why mute the pipe's enlivening note | Y |
| Why sleeps the charming lyre so long | Z |
| O let their strains around us float | Y |
| Mix'd with the sweet and jocund song | Z |
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| And lavish be the roses strewn | I |
| Ye flutes ye lyres exulting breathe | A2 |
| The festal Hour disdains to own | B2 |
| The mournful note the niggard wreath | C2 |
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| Old Lycon with the venal Fair | E |
| Who courts yet hates his vile embrace | D2 |
| Our lively strains shall muttering hear | E2 |
| While Envy pales each sullen face | D2 |
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| THOU with thy dark luxuriant hair | E |
| Thou Telephus as Hesper bright | F2 |
| Thou art accomplish'd Chloe's care | E |
| Whose glance is Love's delicious light | F2 |
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| Thy utmost wish the Fair One crowns | G2 |
| And thy calm'd heart may well pursue | H2 |
| The paths of knowledge Lyce frowns | G2 |
| And I distasteful shun their view | H2 |
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| From themes that wake the powers of mind | I2 |
| The wounded Spirit sick'ning turns | J2 |
| To those be then this hour consign'd | I2 |
| That Mirth approves tho' Wisdom spurns | J2 |
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| They shall disarm my Lyce's frown | K2 |
| The frolic jest the lively strain | B |
| In flowing bowls shall gaily drown | K2 |
| The memory of her cold disdain | B |
Anna Seward
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