John Conington: Day

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“Let hopes and sorrows, fears and angers be,
And think each day that dawns the last you'll see;
For so the hour that greets you unforeseen
Will bring with it enjoyment twice as keen.”

Book I, epistle iv, p. 108
Translations, The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace (1869), Epistles

“The journey down to the abyss
Is prosperous and light:
The palace gates of gloomy Dis
Stand open day and night:
But upward to retrace the way
And pass into the light of day
There comes the stress of labour; this
May task a hero's might.”

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book VI, p. 191

“Sleep gives his name to portals twain;
One all of horn, they say,
Through which authentic spectres gain
Quick exit into day,
And one which bright with ivory gleams,
Whence Pluto sends delusive dreams.”

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book VI, p. 228

“You lose no time in taking out a fly,
Or straw, it may be, that torments your eye;
Why, when a thing devours your mind, adjourn
Till this day year all thought of the concern?
Come now, have courage to be wise: begin:
You're halfway over when you once plunge in:
He who puts off the time for mending, stands
A clodpoll by the stream with folded hands,
Waiting till all the water be gone past;
But it runs on, and will, while time shall last.”

Book I, epistle ii, p. 104
Translations, The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace (1869), Epistles

“Each has his destined time: a span
Is all the heritage of man:
'Tis virtue's part by deeds of praise
To lengthen fame through after days.”

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book X, p. 367

“Bear up, and live for happier days.”

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book I, p. 12

“Ah! would but Jupiter restore
The strength I had in days of yore!”

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book VIII, p. 294

“Blest pair! if aught my verse avail,
No day shall make your memory fail
From off the heart of time.”

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book IX, p. 324

“Then take, good sir, your pleasure while you may;
With life so short 'twere wrong to lose a day.”

Dum licet, in rebus jucundis vive beatus;
Vive memor quam sis aevi brevis.
Book II, satire viii, line 96 (trans. Conington)
Translations, The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace (1869), Satires

“Tis come, our fated day of death.”

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book II, p. 53