A lyrical verse written in praise of, or dedicated to someone or something which captures the poet's interest or serves as an inspiration for the ode.

Richard Barnfield dedicated his poem Cynthia ( a long ode to Queen Elizabeth I ) to Stanley in 1595.

Zoltán Kodály ( 1882-1967 ) also set the ode to music in his work Music Makers, dedicated to Merton College, Oxford on the occasion of its 700th anniversary in 1964.

But it was also was a protest ode dedicated to his friend ( ironically, a former Beatle who had shooed him across the Atlantic in the opposite direction ), John Lennon.

Between 1584 and 1586 he married a noble lady, Dona Magdalena de Vilhena, widow of Dom John of Portugal, the son of the poet Dom Manuel of Portugal, to whom Camões had dedicated his seventh ode.

Some notable moments in the opera include the " Prisoners ' Chorus ", an ode to freedom sung by a chorus of political prisoners, Florestan's vision of Leonore come as an angel to rescue him, and the scene in which the rescue finally takes place.

Even today there exists an ode to him, so well known that it was a potential candidate to be the North Brabant anthem.

Simonides embellished his ode with so many references to the twins Castor and Pollux ( heroic archetypes of the boxer ) that Scopas told him to collect half the commissioned fee from them — he would only pay the other half.

In one victory ode, celebrating Glaucus of Carystus, a famous boxer, Simonides declares that not even Heracles or Polydeuces could have stood against him — a statement whose impiety seemed notable even to Lucian many generations later.

The poet William Wordsworth was very fond of the flower and it inspired him to write three poems including the following from his ode to the celandine:

Here Lord Dorset found him reading Horace, and set him to translate an ode.

During this time Bob Dylan, while touring with Tom Petty in Florida, drove out of his way to meet Stewart, " confessing that he'd played Stewart's ode to marital malaise ' Ten Years of This ' over and over, the record casting a spell over him.

Ralph M. Williams, on John ’ s state of mind upon returning to Aberglasney, writes, “ It is here that we first begin to know something of his personality and see for the first time the conflict in him between the dreamy romantic and the practical man of business that runs through his life .” Having grown up in the archaic monastic buildings of Aberglasney it was not surprising that Dyer had developed an interest in antiquities and his love with nature, as fostered in his 1716 Pindaric ode version of Grongar Hill.

Lebrun visited Greece in 1820, and on his return to Paris he published in 1822 an ode on the death of Napoleon, which cost him his pension.

She currently resides in her native Trinidad and Tobago with her 4 year old son, who became muse for her first book, “ Letters To Ailan ”, an ode to him and about her experience as a mother.

Horace addressed to him the ninth ode of the second book.

The vitality of his works is the result of the aim he had in mind: to compose as an ode to the beauty of the earth and in astonishment about life, creating music which appeals to the spirituality of man, bestowing feelings of happiness on him and making him acquainted with the source of life, the Creative Spirit.

He was a nephew of the Poet Laureate of England, Robert Bridges, who honoured him with an ode To His Excellency.

Trenet's French version was a homage and ode to the changing moods of the sea, while Lawrence, by just adding one word " Beyond " to the title, gave him the start whereby he made the song into one of a lover pining for a lost love.

Christopher Smart addressed to Webster his seventh ode, complimenting him on his ‘ Casuistical Essay on Anger and Forgiveness ’ ( London, 1750 ).

Lamartine addressed an ode to him ; he enjoyed the esteem of Chateaubriand ; and his admirers at home, who imitated him extensively, were called after him Os Filintistas.

This ode to escapism, similar to " Hallelujah " from his next album, Joyful Rebellion, combines a beautiful melody, matching k-os's vocals quite well, with a lyric full of hopelessness at the helplessness of the world around him.

On KDVS radio in Davis, California there are two radio theater shows, Evening Shadows, a horror / fantasy show paying ode to classic old time radio horror, and KDVS Radio Theater which commonly features dramas about social and political themes.

Whereas however Pindar's ode focuses on the myth of Pelops and Tantalus and demonstrates a stern moral about the need for moderation in personal conduct ( a reflection on Hieron's political excesses ), Bacchylides's ode focuses on the myths of Meleager and Hercules, demonstrating the moral that nobody is fortunate or happy in all things ( possibly a reflection on Hieron's chronic illness ).

The most memorable included " The Footie Song ", an ode to football sung and written by people who clearly neither cared or knew anything about it, " The Robert De Niro Calypso ", a tribute to the famous actor, " My Name is Roscoe ", a country and western song whose lyrics included the theory of relativity and " Song For Bob Hoskins ".

* The Standells ' song " Dirty Water " is an ode to Boston and asks listeners " have you heard about the Strangler?

" Walter Jackson Bate argued in 1962 that " the Grecian Urn possesses a quiet and constrained composure hardly equalled by the other odes of this month and perhaps even unsurpassed by the ode To Autumn of the following September ... there is a severe repose about the Ode on a Grecian Urn ; it is both ' interwoven ' and ' complete '; and within its tensely braced stanzas is a potential energy momentarily stilled and imprisoned.

What is notable about Philips against Pope, however, is not so much the particular poems and their answers as the fact that both poets were adapting the pastoral and the ode, both altering it.

Some commentators have further seen the lyrical subtext as displaying Reed's romanticized attitude towards a period of his own addiction to heroin ; this popular understanding of the song as an ode to addiction led to its inclusion in the soundtrack for Trainspotting, a film about the lives of heroin users.

The song is really an ode to the river as much as the dam-rather like the way some popular versions of the " Wabash Cannonball " seem to be as much about that tall glamorous girl from Tennessee, as about the train.

IV. 9 Ne forte credas, an ode to Lollius about the power of poetry that contains the famous line, " Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona ," " Brave men lived before Agamemnon.

What is notable about Philips against Pope, however, is the fact that both poets were adapting the pastoral and the ode, both altering it.

Two of his poems are melancholy pleas to the king on the subject of his incarceration or exile, and this tone of sadness is also present in his ode " On Solitide " which mixes classical motifs with an elegy about the poet in the midst of a forest.

Galen marries Laurelin, and Patrel becomes a famous bard who composes a lengthy ode about the Iron Tower and what happened there.

" As the " antistrophe " of a Greek ode responds to and is patterned after the structure of the " strophe " ( they form two sections of the whole and are sung by two parts of the chorus ), so the art of rhetoric follows and is structurally patterned after the art of dialectic because both are arts of discourse production.

In another view on the etymology, Athenaeus of Naucratis ( 2nd – 3rd century CE ) says that the original form of the word was trygodia from trygos ( grape harvest ) and ode ( song ), because those events were first introduced during grape harvest.

The second ode is usually omitted unless the general theme of the kanon is fasting and repentance, because of its extremely strict spirit.

In his second book, in an ode composed in Alcaic stanzas on the subject of an almost fatal accident he had on his farm, he imagines meeting Alcaeus and Sappho in Hades:

Once the new replacement bridge had been built, without the least feeling of irony, he proceeded to compose an ode to the new construction: " An Address to the New Tay Bridge " " Strong enough all windy storms to defy ".

( Verdi had been asked to compose an ode for the opening of the Canal, but declined on the grounds that he did not write " occasional pieces ".

In addition to its musical culture, Ceos had a rich tradition of athletic competition, especially in running and boxing ( the names of Ceans victorious at Panhellenic competitions were recorded at Ioulis on slabs of stone ) making it fertile territory for a genre of choral lyric that Simonides pioneered — the victory ode.

Algernon Charles Swinburne's poem " Hermaphroditus " is subscribed Au Musée du Louvre, Mars 1863, leaving no doubt that it was the Borghese Hermaphroditus that had inspired his ode.

He began by imitating the strophic arrangement of the ancients, but very soon had the wisdom to desert this for a kind of adjustment of the Horatian ode to rhyme, instead of exact quantitative metre.

Undeterred by their departure, Wings released the already-completed McCartney / Laine ballad " Mull of Kintyre ", an ode to the Scottish Mull of Kintyre coastal region where McCartney had made his home in the early 1970s.

For much of the later part of his life, Eccles lived in Kingston upon Thames and wrote additional incidental music ( though not as frequently as he had for Lincoln's Inn Fields ) as well as the occasional court ode.

La Harpe has said that the poet, called by his friends, perhaps with a spice of irony, Lebrun-Pindare, had written many fine strophes but not one good ode.

So to ease their minds, and free them from any superstitious thoughts or forebodings of evil, Timoleon halted, and concluded an address suitable to the occasion, by saying, that a garland of triumph was here luckily brought them, and had fallen into their hands of its own accord, as an anticipation of victory: the same with which the Corinthians crown the victors in the Isthmian games, accounting chaplets of parsley the sacred wreath proper to their country ; parsley being at that time still the emblem of victory at the Isthmian, as it is now at the Nemean sports ; and it is not so very long ago that the pine first began to be used in its place .” “” ( Plutarch, Life of Timoleon ).</ ref > Victors could also be honored with a statue or an ode.

Keats developed his own type of ode in " Ode to Psyche ", which preceded " Ode on a Grecian Urn " and other odes he had written in 1819.

Derzhavin's ode Waterfall lamented his death ; likewise many in the military establishment had looked upon Potemkin as a father figure and were especially saddened by his death.

An ode which had already been used for one individual in the group is disqualified from serving as the fāl for a second time.

Though Lane had written the bulk of the ode to carefree living and its inevitable payback, he had written it for Stewart to sing, as it had been written for a singer out of his range.

This Bentley had written a fawning ode on the son of Robert Harley ( a former friend of Pope's with whom he seems estranged ).

By the 15th century, four primary genres of poetry had emerged, namely pyo ( poems based on the Jataka Tales, linka ( metaphysical and religious poems ), mawgoun ( historical verses written as a hybrid of epic and ode ), and eigyin ( lullabies of the royal family ).

In December 1958, he had a hit on the R & B charts with " Night Time Is the Right Time ", an ode to carnality that was sung between Charles and one of the Raelettes, Margie Hendricks, with whom Charles was having an affair.

The album featured several fan-favorites, such as " Radio Player ", " Overrated " and " Somewhere on Fullerton " ( an ode to the legendary Chicago punk venue, Fireside Bowl ), though the band had to part ways with both Rossi and Chris Rogner, who would concentrate on his own band August Premier.

The album featured one of Ochs ' few love songs, " Changes ", an ode pining for the life with his wife and daughter from which he had taken himself out of.

As a poet too he had gleams of genius, especially in the Napoleonic ode, Il Cinque Maggio, and where he describes human affections, as in some stanzas of the Inni and in the chorus of the Adelchi.

Around 1720 Jacob Roeters came into possession of the estate and he renamed it Trompenburg and had a gilded plaque with an ode by Gerard Brandt in memory of Tromp installed over the entrance in 1725.