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Subject: ODES (AS POETIC FORM)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN ODE TO FANCY, by MARY JULIA YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tell me, blyth fancy, shall I chuse
Last Line: A tragic theme for such a muse?
Subject(s): Imagination; Odes (as Poetic Form); Fancy


AN ODE TO THE QUEEN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All hail to the empress of india, great britain's queen!
Last Line: God save the queen. Amen.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Odes (as Poetic Form); Prayer; Worship


CICERONIS AMOR: THE SHEPHERD'S ODE, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Walking in a valley green
Last Line: And go contented to their sheep.
Subject(s): Odes (as Poetic Form); Shepherds & Shepherdesses


ESSAY: ODE, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A pythagorean belief in numbers satisfied the need for symbols thinking of
Last Line: Poetry poetry & architecture & poetry
Subject(s): Odes (as Poetic Form)


FIVE GREAT ODES, SELECTION, by PAUL CLAUDEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: But what matter all things seen, to the eye that makes me behold them?
Last Line: And here too is the new surging of the year.
Subject(s): Odes (as Poetic Form)


FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1715, by NAHUM TATE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Arise harmonious pow'rs
Last Line: Only know to prize the blessing.
Subject(s): Birthdays; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Happiness; Odes (as Poetic Form); Joy; Delight


FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1721, by LAWRENCE EUSDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: When the great julius on britannia's strand
Last Line: Hush'd was the world when the messiah came.
Subject(s): Birthdays; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Europe; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Odes (as Poetic Form); Olympus (mountain), Greece; Peace; Roman Empire; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


FOR THE NEW YEAR 1716, by NICHOLAS ROWE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail to thee, glorious rising year
Last Line: For thee thy people all, for thee the year is blest.'
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Great Britain - Wars With France; Holidays; New Year; Odes (as Poetic Form)


GOOSEBERRY-PIE; A PINDARIC ODE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gooseberry-pie is best
Last Line: Praise my pindaric ode?
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Odes (as Poetic Form); Pies; Pindar (522-440 B.c.)


HARVEST ODE, by GEORGE LUNT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When erst, by eden's guarded gate
Last Line: Our father's manly toil.
Subject(s): Harvest; Nature - Religious Aspects; Odes (as Poetic Form)


HORACE TO CHLOE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dear chloe, this rose
Last Line: Give heed to my wooing!
Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Love; Odes (as Poetic Form)


MCGONAGALL'S ODE TO THE KING, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! God, I thank thee for restoring king edward the seventh's health again
Last Line: As emperor of india and king edward the vii.—amen.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Odes (as Poetic Form); Prayer


NUNC ET CAMPUS, ET AREAEUM ..., by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By campus and by areae, my friends
Last Line: What further use have all the odes that horace writ?
Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Odes (as Poetic Form); Poetry & Poets


ODE, by LOUIS HENRI JEAN FARIGOULE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I go forth from my dwelling
Last Line: I do not understand.
Alternate Author Name(s): Romains, Jules
Subject(s): Odes (as Poetic Form)


ODE ON A PENIS, by GREG HEWETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I can't write an ode
Last Line: I've doubled mine
Subject(s): Odes (as Poetic Form); Writing And Writers


ODE TO HER BULLFINCH, by MARY HAYS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Little wanton flutt'rer, say
Last Line: The pangs which do my bosom wound.
Subject(s): Bullfinches; Odes (as Poetic Form)


ODE TO PROFESSOR DIMITRY, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold the man! What matchless godlike grace
Last Line: How glorious yet, thou mecca of the soul!
Subject(s): Odes (as Poetic Form); Praise; Teaching & Teachers


ODE TO THE GERMAN DRAMA, by S. [PSEUD.]    Poem Text                    
First Line: "daughter of night, chaotic queen!"
Last Line: "established order spurn, and call each outcast friend"
Alternate Author Name(s): S.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;odes (as Poetic Form)


ODE, SUNG AT CAMBRIDGE, 1832, by GEORGE LUNT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath these shades, whose hallowed fame
Last Line: And nations own a soul!
Subject(s): Cambridge University; Odes (as Poetic Form)


ODE: ON THE DEATH OF WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, by ARTHUR JAMES MARSHALL SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: An old thorn tree in a stony place
Last Line: Of the sky his cold and passionate song.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, A. J. M.
Subject(s): Death; Odes (as Poetic Form); Poetry & Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939); Dead, The


ODE: THE MEDUSA FACE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When did I pass the pole where I deprived
Last Line: Were the shape of her fall
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Odes (as Poetic Form)


ROMAE, PRINCIPIS URBIUM ..., by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is one ode, and much the best of two
Last Line: The nicer taste of liquid verse, who not.
Subject(s): Children; Horace (65-8 B.c.); Odes (as Poetic Form); Poetry & Poets; Childhood


SECOND ODE TO THE NIGHTINGALE, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blest be thy song, sweet nightingale
Last Line: Shall mock despair, and blunt the shaft of pain.
Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales; Odes (as Poetic Form)


THE BIRTHDAY ODE, 1743, SELECTION, by COLLEY CIBBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of fields, of forts, and floods, unknown to fame
Last Line: Sing, britons, tho' uncouth the sound.
Subject(s): Birthdays; Courts & Courtiers; Odes (as Poetic Form); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


THE MOURNING-GARMENT: PHILADOR'S ODE, HE LEFT WITH DESPAIRING LOVER, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When merry autumn in her prime
Last Line: And counted love but venus' mocks.
Subject(s): Despair; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Odes (as Poetic Form)