Poems About: ODE

"Carpe Diem"
on his gravestone
winter light read more »

KING AHASUERUS in his palace at Shu-Shàn
Gave a feast unto his princes, Tarshish, Meres, Memucàn,
And some others whose outlandish names it boots not to rehearse— read more »

An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return From Ireland

The forward youth that would appear
Must now forsake his muses dear, read more »

Horace, Odes, iv, 7

The snows are fled away, leaves on the shaws
And grasses in the mead renew their birth, read more »

Horace: Book I, Ode 11

"Tu ne quaesieris--scire nefas
--quem mihi; quem tibi--" read more »

An Ode for Music

When Music, heavenly maid, was young,
While yet in early Greece she sung, read more »

My Oldest Best Friend (An Ode to Papa Vic)

Although our memories are few
They stick with me like glue read more »

Nov. 27, 8 B.C. Horace, BK. V. Ode 31


As watchers couched beneath a Bantine oak, read more »

Do you think that odes and sermons,
And the ringing of church bells,
And the blood of old men and young men,
Martyred for the truth they saw read more »

This urban hell, This ode to life
A burning well is but strife
A sulphurous ditch with inner daemons read more »