Of the Choric part the Parode is the first undivided utterance of the Chorus: the Stasimon is a Choric
ode without anapaests or trochaic tetrameters: the Commos is a joint lamentation of Chorus and actors.
"You know Felicity has a birthday next week," he said, "and I want to write her an
ode."
You may have met with her "Ode to an Expiring Frog," sir.'
Leo Hunter's recitation of her far-famed 'Ode to an Expiring Frog,' which was encored once, and would have been encored twice, if the major part of the guests, who thought it was high time to get something to eat, had not said that it was perfectly shameful to take advantage of Mrs.
The word really means a goat-song, and comes from two Greek words, "tragos" a goat and "
ode" a song.
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."
The "Commemoration
Ode" of Lowell has also been a source from which I drank something of the divine ecstasy of the poet's own exalted mood, and I would set this level with the 'Biglow Papers,' high above all his other work, and chief of the things this age of our country shall be remembered by.
The Woggle-Bug was head professor at the Royal College of Oz, and he had composed a fine
Ode in honor of Ozma's birthday.
As often as not, he carried a book in his hand, into which he would glance, then shut it up, and repeat the rest of the
ode from memory.
As it was, every one was conscious that by observing certain rules, such as punctuality and quiet, by cooking well, and performing other small duties, one
ode after another was satisfactorily restored to the world, and they shared the continuity of the scholar's life.
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.
But the
odes of Keats and of Wordsworth, a poem or two by Coleridge, a few more by Shelley, discovered vast realms of the spirit that none had explored before.