The eclectic minds of that curious time could derive equal satisfaction from the brilliant discourses of the reactionary jesuitical De Maistre, the revolutionary odes of Pushkin, and the mysticism of Frau von Krudener.
This distinction between "stanzaic law" and "emotional law" is highly suggestive and not merely in its application to the metres of the famous regular and irregular odes of English verse.
The other species of ode, the "Dorian," is more complex, and is associated with the triumphalodes of Pindar.
English poetry has constantly employed, however, both of the two metrical species of odesrecognized by the ancients.
It must be observed, however, that the English odes written in strictly uniform stanzas differ greatly in the simplicity of the stanzaic pattern.
Victor Hugo is now seen to be something far other than the mere amazing lyric virtuoso of the Odes et Ballades of 1826.
We have but a handful of the lyrics of Sappho and of the odes of Pindar, while the fragments of lyric verse gathered up in the Greek Anthology tantalize us with their reminder of what has been lost beyond recall.
The Odes The King, or Book of Chinese Poetry, being the Collection of Ballads, Sagas, Hymns, etc.
All things in these Odes collected by Confucius belong to the surface of life; they are the work of those who easily plough light furrows, knowing nothing of hidden gold.
Perhaps these Odes may best be compared with the little craftless figures in an early age of pottery, when the fragrance of the soil yet lingered about the rough clay.
Professor Mackail has published in his Oxford Lectures an essay on these odes and D.
The odes or Qasidas, however, began with a love prelude, called nasib, in which the poet dwelt on his love sorrows merely to win the hearts of his hearers to his chief theme.
Never again, save in passages of the memorial odes written after the War, was Lowell more completely the poet.
In this poem and in the various Centennial Odes composed ten years later, Lowell found an instrument exactly suited to his temperament and his technique.
To a generation beginning to lose its taste for commemorative oratory, the Odes gave--and still give--the thrill of patriotic eloquence which Everett and Webster had communicated in the memorial epoch of 1826.
And while such was the character of the odes that broke the action of the play, the action itself was an appeal not less to the ear and to the eye than to the passion and the intellect.
In these moments, when he was not occupied with the dry technicalities and quibbles of legal writers, he amused himself with translating the Odes of Anacreon, which he published with copious notes, in 1800.
He gave no heed, however, but drew from a case a number ofodes and compositions, which he told me were his own.
Were he, to choose, a wench out of the King's passengers I'd warrant our macaronies to compose odes to her eyebrows.
His real message to America, the nationalodes and the essays on Democracy which will make his name permanent in literature, came after 1865, and so falls into the new period.
If it touch national themes, it must be strong and trumpet clear, like the odes of Lowell and Lanier.
This long-winded epic of the soul exhibits not only a general indebtedness in imagery and ideas, but also direct borrowings of whole lines from Hils’s Odes of Casimire.
That you may never wantOdes of mine to parody, I enclose you one to Fear,[24] nothing like it you will observe since the time of Pindar.
The Reviewers gave great applause to your Odes to Indolence and Impudence; and they called my poems "agreeable light pieces," which was the very character I wished for.
Soon afterwards he translated the modern Greek odes of Kalvos under the title of La Lyre patriotique de la Grece.
This was followed in the same year by a Traite sur la poesie orientale, and by a French metrical translation of the odes of Hafiz.
Some Men otherwise of Sense, have wondered that a great Genius should spring out of Ireland; and think you mad in affirming, that fine Odes have been written in Lapland.
In modern literature there is a Pugna Porcorum (pig-fight) of which every word begins with a p, and there are Spanish odes from which all vowels but one are omitted.
Virgil is full of the Greek Forms of Speech, which the Criticks call Hellenisms, as Horace in his Odes abounds with them much more than Virgil.
A canon consists, nominally, of nine odes or hymns, but the second ode is always omitted on account of the denunciations of God against Israel which it contains.
The odes are addressed, the one to Aphrodite, the other to Anactoria.
Under the collective title of Anactoria, these odes together with many of the fragments, Swinburne has interwoven into an exquisite whole.
But of at least nine books there remain but two odesand a handful of fragments.
For, by preserving our woods and forests, he furnishes materials for all the history of Britain worth reading, and all the odes worth nothing.
Visions of Ancient Mariners and Christabels do not revisit the mature man, and the Toryism of middle life will hardly inspire odes to anything.
He proposed to form a society which he called Socratia; the hymns to be sung by the members were the Odes of Horace, and the prayers were blasphemous productions, composed by Toland, in derision of those used in the Roman Church.
Very fatal to himself were the odes and philippics of M.
This passage is not found in any of the odes of Pindar now remaining.
The few odes he quotes have certainly a deep and pious feeling, such as the Man of Mirth will feel at times: none perhaps more strongly.
Then Edgeworth fires away about the Odes of Pindar, and Donne is very æsthetic about Mr. Hallam's book.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "odes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
