Swinburne has written an ode to the French Republic.

I remember how sweetly he sang Colonel Lovelace's ode to Lucasta, writ when going to the wars: "True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield.

The task having taught him something of verse-making, he composed an ode, which he sent by post to his mistress.

Hewho knows how to construe a few pages of the classics, who knows how to demonstrate a few mathematical problems, scan a few verses, recite a few odes, carry on a few scientific experiments, undertake a small researchhow shall he compete with these rulers of the thought of men?

Dr. Johnson repeated the ode, Jam satis terris[310], while Mr. Boyd was with his patients.

Wordsworth's longer poems, since they contain much that is prosy and uninteresting, may well be left till after we have read the odes, sonnets, and short descriptive poems that have made him famous.

He introduced the Pindaric ode into English, and wrote an epic poem on a biblical subjectthe Davideisnow quite unreadable.

Monsieur Gaston Jollivet, who some time ago committed the offence, grave in our eyes, of publishing a comic ode in which he allows himself to ridicule our illustrious and beloved master, Victor Hugo, but was certainly guilty of none in desiring a return to order, had his arm fractured, it is said.

Addison, from Oxford in 1699, addressed a Latin ode to Burnet.]

THE MATERNAL INSTINCT There have been created high odes to an unknown god, sensuous lyrics of love, apostrophes and addresses to every human passion.

Lord Byron dedicated an ode to him, and sympathisers with the Greek cause throughout Europe sent him subsidies.

He saw Cave involved in a state of warfare with the numerous competitors, at that time, struggling with the Gentleman's Magazine; and gratitude for such supplies as Johnson received, dictated a Latin ode on the subject of that contention.

He spent the remaining five years of his life in editing the odes and historic monuments in which the glories of the ancient Chinese dynasty are set forth.

In this exquisite production, he flung from him all the trappings with which his contemporaries had embarrassed the ode.

Nine ladies, assuming each the character of a Muse, and clubbing a funeral ode, or elegy, produced "The Nine Muses;" of which very rare (and very worthless) collection, I have given a short account in the Appendix; where the reader will also find an ode on the same subject, by Oldys, which may serve for ample specimen of the poetical lamentations over Dryden.

Then follows another choral ode, similar in theme to the last, dwelling on the woe brought by the act of Paris upon Troy, the change of the bridal song to the trump of war and the dirge of death; contrasting, in a profusion of splendid tropes, the beauty of Helen with the curse to which it is bound; and insisting once more on the doom that attends insolence and pride.

The witty Rosalind declares to Orlando, in her bantering way, that "there is a man haunts the forest, that abuses our young plants with carving 'Rosalind' on their barks; hangs odes upon hawthorns and elegies on brambles, all, forsooth, deifying the name of Rosalind ...

"If I were a poet, I'd indite an ode 'written after eating some of the excellent chicken pie of the Misses Tower.'

It consisted very largely of conversations between two persons, representing two opposed points of view, and giving occasion for an almost scientific discussion of every problem of action raised in the play; and between these conversations were inserted lyric odes in which the chorus commented on the situation, bestowed advice or warning, praise or blame, and finally summed up the moral of the whole.

Among these exquisite shorter poems we mention only the four odes, "On a Grecian Urn," "To a Nightingale," "To Autumn," and "To Psyche."

The clarion and the fife have ousted the pastoral ode.

To this same fashion, also, we owe Gray's two fine odes, the Progress of Poesy and the Bard.

Thus the treatise praises the ode by Sappho which it quotes, because the poet has taken the emotions incident to the frenzy of love from the attendant symptoms, from actuality, and first selected and then closely combined those which were conspicuous and intense.[30]

he became a Roman Catholic, and wrote "The Hind and the Panther," characterised by Stopford Brooke as "a model of melodious reasoning in behalf of the milk-white hind of the Church of Rome," and really the most powerful thing of the kind in the language; at the Revolution he was deprived of his posts, but it was after that event he executed his translation of Virgil, and produced his celebrated odes and "Fables" (1631-1700).

[Footnote 10: The antiquary may be pleased to know that the "Devil" tavern in Fleet Street, the old haunt of the dramatists, was the place where the choir of the Chapel Royal gathered to rehearse the Laureate odes.