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  • She had composed a lengthy poem for the event, her "Columbian Ode," and pestered her many powerful friends into having it placed on the day's program.†   (source)
  • Every scene, it seems, every ode by the chorus, contains references to seeing—who saw what, who failed to see, who is really blind—and images of light and darkness, which have everything to do with seeing or not seeing.†   (source)
  • I promised myself that once I achieved immortality again, I would assemble the Nine Muses and together we would create an ode, a hymnal to the power of bacon, which would move the heavens to tears and cause rapture across the universe.†   (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)
  • " "--i nie wodz nasz na pokuszenie ale nas zbaw ode zÅ‚ego.†   (source)
  • There were no great odes written to the wonders of artificial insemina-tion-("What?"†   (source)
  • I will never forget the moment when they took my blindfold off and I found myself in the middle of a sun-filled, square courtyard, surrounded by women who were singing the Ode to Joy, just for me.†   (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)
  • Among them was a rhapsodic ode to Thomas Wolfe commemorating a pilgrimage I had made to Asheville the previous summer.†   (source)
  • Maybe the poet Keats was right after all in the "Ode on a Grecian Urn.†   (source)
  • I have written a carefully composed ode, in perfect terza rima, begging a single indulgence.†   (source)
  • They chose a big ode, so big that the strongest field hands bent their backs under its weight.†   (source)
  • Even as a schoolboy, I loved John Keats's ode "To Autumn" for being an ark of the covenant between language and sensation; as an adolescent, I loved Gerard Manley Hopkins for the intensity of his exclamations which were also equations for a rapture and an ache I didn't fully know I knew until I read him; I loved Robert Frost for his farmer's accuracy and his wily down-to-earthness; and Chaucer too for much the same reasons.†   (source)
  • A glorious day, crying out for a hymn to itself, like Schiller's "Ode to Joy."†   (source)
  • They think they ode the world.†   (source)
  • John Henry the Steel-Drivin' Man couldn't have done what Jocko's ode said I did.†   (source)
  • Once more I'll read the ode that I have writ.   (source)
  • he wrote an "Ode to the Ocean in a Storm"   (source)
  • I finished my ode, then dropped to one knee, spreading my arms as I had before.†   (source)
  • You're probably not familiar with Folgore's odes to coal and electricity, and you needn't be.†   (source)
  • They think the whole world odes them a living.†   (source)
  • And then, from the darkened spirals of her memory, rise two lines of poetry, Babi's farewell ode to Kabul: One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her —walls.†   (source)
  • Next came a poetic ode to Columbus that was as long and difficult to endure as the admiral's voyage itself: "Then from the Pinta's foretop fell a cry, a trumpet song, 'Light ho!†   (source)
  • You must write poems for her, mighty odes—I shall help you write them—and thus—and only thus—shall you win your true love's heart."†   (source)
  • Ode to a hot dog
    With bug juice and tater chips
    I got nothing, man
    I WAS NOT IN THE MOOD TO CELEBRATE.†   (source)
  • I launched into "Dance" by Nas, which I have to say was one of the most moving odes to mothers that I ever inspired an artist to write.†   (source)
  • It is conceivable that one could write a decent ode to coal or electricity, but these were humorless, monomaniacal, terrifying exercises, matched rather well with the socialist realism on the other side of the political spectrum.†   (source)
  • Combine this with Marinetti's campaign against spaghetti, De Felices wish that every child be taught to slaughter animals, and the various odes and symphonies to coal, drill presses, daggers, and stick pins, and you have a school.†   (source)
  • "He wrote Odes and Epodes," said Tom Davis.†   (source)
  • Yet, she said to herself, from the dawn of time odes have been sung to love; wreaths heaped and roses; and if you asked nine people out of ten they would say they wanted nothing but this—love; while the women, judging from her own experience, would all the time be feeling, This is not what we want; there is nothing more tedious, puerile, and inhumane than this; yet it is also beautiful and necessary.†   (source)
  • …anybody—a woman who even in his (Quentin's) father's youth had already established (even if not affirmed) herself as the town's and the county's poetess laureate by issuing to the stern and meagre subscription list of the county newspaper poems, ode eulogy and epitaph, out of some bitter and implacable reserve of undefeat; and these from a woman whose family's martial background as both town and county knew consisted of the father who, a conscientious objector on religious grounds, had…†   (source)
  • And she may not have known before that she hated him and she may not have known it now even, nevertheless the first of the odes to Southern soldiers in that portfolio which when your grandfather saw it in 1885 contained a thousand or more, was dated in the first year of her father's voluntary incarceration and dated at two oclock in the morning.†   (source)
  • Ode to a Nightingale TO GERALD and SARA MANY FÊTES BOOK 1.†   (source)
  • RAGUENEAU: 'tis true that, for a little ode….†   (source)
  • So Amory declaimed "The Ode to a Nightingale" to the bushes they passed.†   (source)
  • Sit down and write an ode instead of tearing up and down like that.†   (source)
  • This is what she wrote about a boy by the name of Stephen Dowling Bots that fell down a well and was drownded: ODE TO STEPHEN DOWLING BOTS, DEC'D And did young Stephen sicken, And did young Stephen die?†   (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)
  • The word "time" split its husk; poured its riches over him; and from his lips fell like shells, like shavings from a plane, without his making them, hard, white, imperishable words, and flew to attach themselves to their places in an ode to Time; an immortal ode to Time.†   (source)
  • Alfred in his funeral ode on the victor of Waterloo ventures not to call him the greatest soldier of all time, tho' in the same ode he invokes Nelson as "the greatest sailor since our world began.†   (source)
  • The Ode on a Grecian Urn is more lovely now than when it was written, because for a hundred years lovers have read it and the sick at heart taken comfort in its lines.'†   (source)
  • So they returned to the most exalted of mankind; the criminal who faced his judges; the victim exposed on the heights; the fugitive; the drowned sailor; the poet of the immortal ode; the Lord who had gone from life to death; to Septimus Warren Smith, who sat in the arm-chair under the skylight staring at a photograph of Lady Bradshaw in Court dress, muttering messages about beauty.†   (source)
  • Now for his writings; how the dead sing behind rhododendron bushes; odes to Time; conversations with Shakespeare; Evans, Evans, Evans—his messages from the dead; do not cut down trees; tell the Prime Minister.†   (source)
  • As I have said, I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up.†   (source)
  • If it were possible to translate the comprehensive and melodious language in which he spoke, the ode might read something like the following: "Manitou!†   (source)
  • On one occasion, Mr. Pickwick put on a pair of spectacles without any glass, rapped upon the table, hemmed, and having stared hard at Mr. Snodgrass, who was tilting back in his chair, till he arranged himself properly, began to read: ------------------------------------------------_ "THE PICKWICK PORTFOLIO" MAY 20, 18— POET'S CORNER ANNIVERSARY ODE Again we meet to celebrate With badge and solemn rite, Our fifty-second anniversary, In Pickwick Hall, tonight.†   (source)
  • These are new poetry of the first Bard[282]—poetry without stop—hymn, ode and epic,[283] poetry still flowing, Apollo[284] and the Muses[285] chanting still.†   (source)
  • —WORDSWORTH: Ode to Duty.†   (source)
  • …phantoms, priests were sometimes mingled, frequenters of this ancient salon, and some gentlemen; 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…†   (source)
  • Congreve, "Pindaric Ode," ii.†   (source)
  • This was always followed by Collins's Ode on the Passions, wherein I particularly venerated Mr. Wopsle as Revenge throwing his blood-stained sword in thunder down, and taking the War-denouncing trumpet with a withering look.†   (source)
  • That, rather late in the evening Mr. Wopsle gave us Collins's ode, and threw his bloodstained sword in thunder down, with such effect, that a waiter came in and said, "The Commercials underneath sent up their compliments, and it wasn't the Tumblers' Arms."†   (source)
  • But some Petrarch[708] or Ariosto,[709] filled with the new wine of his imagination, writes me an ode or a brisk romance, full of daring thought and action.†   (source)
  • Yet, Wordsworth's Laodamia, and the ode of "Dion,"[317] and some sonnets, have a certain noble music; and Scott[318] will sometimes draw a stroke like the portrait of Lord Evandale, given by Balfour of Burley.†   (source)
  • We do not meet for games of strength[1] or skill, for the recitation of histories, tragedies, and odes, like the ancient Greeks; for parliaments of love and poesy, like the Troubadours;[2] nor for the advancement of science, like our co-temporaries in the British and European capitals.†   (source)
  • That answer and those leaves, Vincent said to him, will adorn you more fitly when something more, and greatly more, than a capful of light odes can call your genius father.†   (source)
  • /Favorite-son/ appears in an ode addressed to Washington on his visit to Portsmouth, N. H., in 1789, but it did not acquire its present ironical sense until it was applied to Martin Van Buren.†   (source)
  • Originally, the inflectional suffix had been /-de/ or /-ede/ and in some cases /-ode/, and the vowels were always pronounced.†   (source)
  • 4 I hear those odes, symphonies, operas, I hear in the William Tell the music of an arous'd and angry people, I hear Meyerbeer's Huguenots, the Prophet, or Robert, Gounod's Faust, or Mozart's Don Juan.†   (source)
  • Once more I'll read the ode that I have writ.†   (source)
  • There is a man haunts the forest that abuses our young plants with carving "Rosalind" on their barks; hangs odes upon hawthorns, and elegies on brambles; all, forsooth, deifying the name of Rosalind: if I could meet that fancy-monger, I would give him some good counsel, for he seems to have the quotidian of love upon him.†   (source)
  • So Coleridge in his Ode to Dejection: And those thin clouds above, in flakes and bars, That give sway their motion to the stars.†   (source)
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