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In the exquisite Ode to the West Wind, he calls to that "breath of Autumn's being" to express its own mighty harmonies through him: "O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, * Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is: What if my leaves are falling like its own! The tumult of thy mighty harmonies Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone, Sweet though in sadness."
In his daughter's words, 'he read in season, and out of season; and he not only read, but remembered. As a schoolboy, he knew by heart the first book of the 'Iliad', and all the odes of Horace; and it shows how deeply the classical part of his training must have entered into him, that he was wont, in later life, to soothe his little boy to sleep by humming to him an ode of Anacreon.
Not infrequently a marching soldier might be seen to halt, take his writing utensils from his belt, and compose an ode, and such papers were found afterward in the helmets or the breast-plates, when these were removed from their lifeless wearers. What Christianity has done in Europe toward rousing compassion in the midst of belligerent horrors, love of music and letters has done in Japan.
The Duke of N e is publishing a Treatise on 'Toleration;'and Lord L y an Essay on 'Self-knowledge.'As for news more remote, I hear that the Dey of Algiers is finishing an 'Ode to Liberty,'and the College of Caffraria preparing a volume of voyages to the North Pole!"
"Oh, mother!" exclaimed Pennie reproachfully, "there'd be hardly anything in it. It's a very good one this month," she added, turning to Miss Unity. "David's sent quite a long thing on `The Habits of the Pig, and Ambrose has written an `Ode to Spring." "Then why," inquired Miss Unity, "have you so much writing to do?"
He lost his appetite, grew pale, shunned the society of even his dearest friends, took long, solitary walks, and wrote many an ode and sonnet in honor of the fair Donati. But she was indeed a divinity rather than a friend, and his oft-expressed delight in her many charms was rather intellectual than emotional and passionate.
As I doubt not but you are both excellent classics, suppose, for the good of your own memories, and the entertainment and surprise of the company, the thousand pounds should fall to the share of him who can repeat by heart the longest ode of Horace?"
Cowley introduced the Pindaric ode, a highly artificial form of the lyric, in which the language was tortured into a kind of spurious grandeur, and the meter teased into a sound and fury, signifying nothing. Cowley's Pindarics were filled with something which passed for fire, but has now utterly gone out. Nevertheless, the fashion spread, and "he who could do nothing else," said Dr.
The story of Orpheus has furnished Pope with an illustration of the power of music, for his "Ode for St. Cecilia's Day" The following stanza relates the conclusion of the story: "But soon, too soon the lover turns his eyes; Again she falls, again she dies, she dies! How wilt thou now the fatal sisters move? No crime was thine, if't is no crime to love.
He took quite a fancy, however, to the ode in Horace ending with the lines: Dolce ridentem, Dulce loqucntem, Lalagen amabo. And in his thought he substituted for Lalage the fair-haired Bertha, quite regardless of the requirements of the metre.
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