Word: odes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...article on "Harvard Memorial Poems" which cannot fail to interest Harvard men. Facsimiles from manuscripts prepared by the authors for this purpose are published of the poems, "Harvard's Dead" by Rev. S. F. Smith, the author of "America,"- the second canto of James Russell Lowell's Ode, recited at the Harvard commemoration, July 21, 1865-and the hymn written by Dr. Holmes for the dedication of Harvard Memorial Hall, June 23, 1874. And there seems to be a special appropriateness in their publication at this Memorial Day season...
...column covered with inscriptions of great value has been unearthed at Rome. It commemorates the games held every ten years, and there is also upon it an ode by Horace...
...Christmas number of Scribner's contains the metrical version of the 29th ode of the third book of Horace, by Miss Helen Read, which won the Sargent prize...
...language is perhaps artificial, but that is owing to the many translations made of it, In reading the English Bible as a piece of literature, read it as a collection of stories that form pieces of literature by themselves. Read the song of Deborah (Judges, chap. v.) as an ode,-as a magnificent specimen of English literature. Read the seventh chapter of Proverbs for a sketch of manners...
...best metrical version of the ninth Ode of the fourth Book of Horace...