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A Defence of Poesie and Poems
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Poem: Translation
From Horace, Book II. Ode X., beginning "Rectius vives, Licini," &c.
You better sure shall live, not evermore
Trying high seas; nor, while sea’s rage you flee,
Pressing too much upon ill-harboured shore.
The golden mean who loves, lives safely free
From filth of foreworn house, and quiet lives,
Released from court, where envy needs must be.
The wind most oft the hugest pine tree grieves:
The stately towers come down with greater fall:
The highest hills the bolt of thunder cleaves.
Evil haps do fill with hope, good haps appall
With fear of change, the courage well prepared:
Foul winters, as they come, away they shall.
Though present times, and past, with evils be snared,
They shall not last: with cithern silent Muse,
Apollo wakes, and bow hath sometime spared.
In hard estate, with stout shows, valour use,
The same man still, in whom wisdom prevails;
In too full wind draw in thy swelling sails.
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Chicago: Philip Sidney, "Poem: Translation," A Defence of Poesie and Poems, ed. Sutherland, Alexander, 1853-1902 and trans. Seaton, R. C. in A Defence of Poesie and Poems (New York: George E. Wood, ""Death-bed"" edition, 1892), Original Sources, accessed April 26, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=Q7X3MLQK4MYIU4Q.
MLA: Sidney, Philip. "Poem: Translation." A Defence of Poesie and Poems, edited by Sutherland, Alexander, 1853-1902, and translated by Seaton, R. C., in A Defence of Poesie and Poems, New York, George E. Wood, ""Death-bed"" edition, 1892, Original Sources. 26 Apr. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=Q7X3MLQK4MYIU4Q.
Harvard: Sidney, P, 'Poem: Translation' in A Defence of Poesie and Poems, ed. and trans. . cited in ""Death-bed"" edition, 1892, A Defence of Poesie and Poems, George E. Wood, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 26 April 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=Q7X3MLQK4MYIU4Q.
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