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  • I have written a carefully composed ode, in perfect terza rima, begging a single indulgence.†  (source)
  • I have a good title for this chapter: Ode to My Fountain Pen In Memoriam My fountain pen was always one of my most prized possessions; I valued it highly, especially because it had a thick nib, and I can only write neatly with thick nibs.†  (source)
  • Jalil told her the story of Queen Gauhar Shad, who had raised the famous minarets as her loving ode to Herat back in the fifteenth century.†  (source)
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  • Our teacher made us memorize the words to "Ode on a Grecian Urn," and alone in the kitchen now I close my eyes and whisper Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time ...but that's all I can remember.†  (source)
  • All human odes are essentially one.†  (source)
  • I spend my days thinking of sweet things to do for him—go buy a peppermint soap that will sit in his palm like a warm stone, or maybe a slim slice of trout that I could cook and serve to him, an ode to his riverboat days.†  (source)
  • "He wrote Odes and Epodes," said Tom Davis.†  (source)
  • During a recitation by their Poet Master Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem "Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning" four of his audience died of internal hemorrhaging, and the President of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one of his own legs off.†  (source)
  • the Marquis de Sass, private secretary to Madame de Berry, the Vicomte de Val, who published, under the pseudonyme of Charles-Antoine, monorhymed odes, the Prince de Beauff, who, though very young, had a gray head and a pretty and witty wife, whose very low-necked toilettes of scarlet velvet with gold torsades alarmed these shadows, the Marquis de Cd'E, the man in all France who best understood "proportioned politeness," the Comte d'Am, the kindly man with the amiable chin, and the Chevalier de Port-de-Guy, a pillar of the library of the Louvre, called the King's cabinet, M. de Port-de-Guy, bald, and rather aged than old, was wont to relate that in 1793, at the age of sixteen, he had been p†  (source)
  • ANNIVERSARY ODE  (source)
  • "The Psalms of David, in sublimity, beauty, pathos, and originality, or in one word poetry, are superior to all the odes, hymns, and songs in any language," he told Jefferson.†  (source)
  • They chose a big ode, so big that the strongest field hands bent their backs under its weight.†  (source)
  • Last year, my second year at Radcliffe, I studied English composition, the Bible as English composition, the governments of America and Europe, the Odes of Horace, and Latin comedy.†  (source)
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