Quotes about ode, page 5
An Ode In Time of Inauguration
(March 4, 1913)
Thine aid, O Muse, I consciously beseech;
I crave thy succour, ask for thine assistance
That men may cry: "Some little ode! A peach!"
O Muse, grant me the strength to go the distance!
For odes, I learn, are dithyrambs, and long;
Exalted feeling, dignity of theme
And complicated structure guide the song.
(All this from Webster's book of high esteem.)
Let complicated structures not becloud
My lucid lines, nor weight with overloading.
To Shelley, Keats, and Wordsworth and that crowd
I yield the bays for grand and lofty oding.
Mine but the task to trace a country's growth,
As evidenced by each innauguration
From Washington's to Wilson's primal oath--
In these U.S., the celebrated nation.
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poem by Franklin P. Adams
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The Funeral Of Hearts
Love's the funeral of hearts
And an ode for cruelty
When angels cry blood
On flowers of evil in bloom
The funeral of hearts
And a plea for mercy
When love is a gun
Separating me from you
She was the sun
Shining upon
The tomb of your hopes and dreams so frail
He was the moon
Painting you
With it's glow so vulnerable and pale
Love's the funeral of hearts
And an ode for cruelty
When angels cry blood
On flowers of evil in bloom
The funeral of hearts
And a plea for mercy
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song performed by H.I.M.
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The Funeral Of Hearts
Loves the funeral of hearts
And an ode for cruelty
When angels cry blood
On flowers of evil in bloom
The funeral of hearts
And a plea for mercy
When love is a gun
Separating me from you
She was the sun
Shining upon
The tomb of your hopes and dreams so frail
He was the moon
Painting you
With its glow so vulnerable and pale
Loves the funeral of hearts
And an ode for cruelty
When angels cry blood
On flowers of evil in bloom
The funeral of hearts
And a plea for mercy
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song performed by H.i.m. (his Infernal Majesty)
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The Dunciad: Book I.
The Mighty Mother, and her son who brings
The Smithfield muses to the ear of kings,
I sing. Say you, her instruments the great!
Called to this work by Dulness, Jove, and Fate;
You by whose care, in vain decried and cursed,
Still Dunce the second reigns like Dunce the first;
Say how the Goddess bade Britannia sleep,
And poured her spirit o’er the land and deep.
In eldest time, e’er mortals writ or read,
E’er Pallas issued from the Thunderer’s head,
Dulness o’er all possessed her ancient right,
Daughter of Chaos and eternal Night:
Fate in their dotage this fair idiot gave,
Gross as her sire, and as her mother grave,
Laborious, heavy, busy, bold, and blind,
She ruled, in native anarchy, the mind.
Still her old empire to restore she tries,
For, born a goddess, Dulness never dies.
O thou! whatever title please thine ear,
Dean, Drapier, Bickerstaff, or Gulliver!
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poem by Alexander Pope
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While teaching
I saw the sky sprawling blue
An ode was read to me
I watched the heaven rip unfold
I read the ode to thee.
poem by Diptesh Augustine Sarkar
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Ode to the female form
Ode to the female form
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A song of beauty plays
to the tune of desire
striking a note in the soul
a look into the mind seduces
a song ode to the female form
soft, delicate, sensual
alive with every feeling
serenades aloud to be heard
play on sweet song
enter the soul and mind
with a beauty known
as woman kind
poem by Matthew Holloway
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A Spiders Web
Ode to marshmallow
so sticky and sweet
Its beauty quite hidden
For normal eyes to see
Warm over the fire
Soft to touch
Stuck between
My five fingers
Spread them apart
A spider's web
Different and unique
each time
So may I
with my little eye
See the beauty
hidden beneath
Natures secret
So special and short
Ode, to marshmallow
poem by Violet Montario
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He's Here
He's here,
Like that day,
Drizzled rained hailed,
All in one spray.
Soaked me out of my clothes,
When I fell to my knees.
So open to the world.
Mystify with me
Set sea (take me!)
Lets take flight.
valu-plus
All this for how much?
Lets forget ourselves
Be one in ourselves.
Ode to euphoria!
Ode to you!
You're here.
poem by Attia Taylor
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Ett Skrik I Skogen
Jag dog igår och nu är jag död
Inget levande ting kan vid mig kännas
Jag är en skugga i det kalla,
åh så kalla mörkret
(2x :)
Jag är blott ett skrik i skogen
I den öde skogen!
Trädens stammar är kala som min själ
Och marken täckt av mossa
Också min kropp är det
Jag är lukten av gammal lax
I stormande isvindar
(2x :)
Jag är blott ett skrik i skogen
I den öde skogen!
poem by Skurtfan Kebnekaizer vocalist
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Ode To Istanbul
Ode to my soulful Istanbul
mystic place where fermented
juices producing seasoned creative process.
Rich in diverse emotive experience
stretching your fabled essence
across unread palm of countless hands.
Ode to my siren soulful Istanbul
mystic city place where fermented
lyric poem sung in proud Turkish hearts.
Hearts which embraced with cultural cups
steaming tea coffee served in countless byways
as embraced poet tread myriad layered forms.
poem by Terence George Craddock
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