In another of his poems, this author challenges the reader to "Set me down on the lifeless plains… where the sun's chariot rumbles too / near the earth," as even there he'll "still be in love" with his "sweetly laughing" mistress.
In a poem by this author, a woman urges her husband to "go wherever your feet and the winds / take you… and carve an epitaph on my / tomb / in fond memory." In another of his poems, this author challenges the reader to "Set me down on the lifeless plains… where the sun's chariot rumbles too / near the earth," as even there he'll "still be in love" with his "sweetly laughing" mistress. This author celebrated Cleopatra's decision to "touch the / poisonous asps / with courage," in a poem declaring that "now is the time for drinking." This author boasted that "I have made a monument more / lasting than bronze," in the poem that caps off the third book of his major work. This poet's declaration that "to die for native land is sweet and fitting" was subverted in a poem by Wilfred Owen. For 10 points, name this Roman poet whose lyric Odes are the source of the phrase "carpe diem."
In a poem by this author, a woman urges her husband to "go wherever your feet and the winds / take you… and carve an epitaph on my / tomb / in fond memory."
Horace [or Quintus Horatius Flaccus] &lt;Non-Epic Poetry&gt;