Word: ode
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...Herbivore. Editor Housman is apologetic about filling it. Most people, when they think of Wordsworth at all, think of him as a rustic herbivore who wrote, among reams of rhymed prose, some 100 sonnets glorifying the Church of England. By some literary freak he also managed to write the Ode on Intimations of Immortality. Then he earned Robert Browning's versified contempt ("Just for a handful of silver he left us") by changing his politics, later becoming poet laureate of England...
Pure Fountain. It has been said that "when Wordsworth's inferior work has been pruned away, only a half dozen first-rate poems remain. Arnold in his selection found 312 pages of first-rate poetry; Housman finds only 129 pages. Included in his selections are the Ode on Intimations of Immortality, Tintern Abbey, Michael, the best episode from The Prelude, a few narrative poems and a swatch of lyrics, 14 of Wordsworth's grand total of nearly 150 sonnets (some of which Housman considers greater than Milton's). All the Lucy poems are included. From...
...side of the pot to carry off impurities), stuff it with ground heart, liver, lights, suet, onions, oatmeal and seasoning, and boil again. The steaming, evil-looking haggis would be brought to the banquet table to the skirl of bagpipes and the words of Bobby Burns's ode to "the great chieftain o' the puddin' race...
...Harvard, Horatio was the smallest man (5 ft. 2) in the class of 1852, ranked eighth in his studies and wrote the class ode. As a senior, Horatio noted in his diary: "Am reading Moby Dick, and find it exciting. What a thrilling life the literary must be! ... Would it be desirable for me to take up writing as a life work? The satisfaction resulting from a beautiful story must be inspiring-a story that rouses readers to a new sense of the fine things of life." From that moment his ambition was fixed: he would write the great American...
Ollie Reeves, poet laureate of the Atlanta Constitution, recently broadcast this ode to a plant whose exploits are becoming the talk of the South. Kudzu (rhymes with good zoo) is a vine which, say Arkansans, grows so fast that men drop kudzu roots into the ground and run. It has been known to grow as much as twelve inches in a single day, as much as 100 feet in a season...