He could turn his bluster into a zephyr that inspired the young genius of Milton.
The ode of which I am speaking begins-- 'Vides ut alta stet nive candidum Soracte.
Horace, in the ninth ode of his first book, speaks of the serenades of his days.
It was entitled "An Ode to the late Thomas Edwards, Esq.
And as the argument of thisode implies, that great poetical talents and high sentiments of liberty do reciprocally produce and assist each other, so Pindar is perhaps the most exemplary proof of this connexion which occurs in history.
Th' ode rip was tellin' the young un that outworn lie about the brook.
And you come to me w' a message like that, y' ode gone-off!
I told th' ode man as he might look on it as settled, an' Tom 'll be here to-morrow.
While Keats's ode upon that bird Was limpid as the notes That, sweet and strong, were in the song Of Philomelian throats.
When Wordsworth did the skylark stuff, He praised the bird a few, And Shelley's ode sincerely showed He liked the skylark, too.
This ode you never yet have seen, By Stephen Duck,[19] upon the queen.
Delany The Beasts' Confession The Parson's Case The hardship upon the Ladies A Love Song The Storm Ode on Science A Young Lady's Complaint On the Death of Dr.
Shortly afterwards, the conversation having turned upon poetry, his lordship mentioned the famous ode on the death of Sir John Moore as the finest piece of poetry in any language.
On one occasion, after dinner, the conversation turned on the lyrical poetry of the day, and a question arose as to which was the most perfect ode that had been produced.
Sweet warbled on your smutty ear, Before thisOde of mine.
MY DEAR SIR--The following Ode was written anticipating the tone of some strictures on my writings by the gentleman to whom it is addressed.
Ode to the Great Unknown Ode to Joseph Grimaldi, Senior An Address to the Steam Washing Company Ode to Captain Parry Ode to W.
Let him who has a mistress to her eyebrow write a sonnet, Let the lover of a lily pen a languid ode upon it; In such sentimental subjects I'm a Philistine and cynic, And prefer the inspiration drawn from sources nicotinic.
