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Odes 1.30 (Creech): O Venus
Translated by Thomas Creech (1684) · From Odes, Book I (Creech, 1684)
KInd Venus leave the Paphian Isle,
And live with Glycera a while;
A noble Temple she prepares,
With Incense sweet thine Altars smoak,
Thy presence numerous Vows invoak;
She calls Thee with a thousand Prayers.
The Graces with their Zones unloos'd,
The Nymphs their beauties all expos'd
From every Spring, and every Plain;
Thy powerful, hot, and winged Boy,
And Youth that's dull without thy joy,
And Mercury compose thy Train.
Codex Note
He begs Venus to come to the Temple which his Glycera had prepar'd.
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MLA
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus). “Odes 1.30 (Creech): O Venus.” Translated by Thomas Creech. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/horace/178/.
Chicago
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus). “Odes 1.30 (Creech): O Venus.” Translated by Thomas Creech. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/horace/178/.
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