Book of Odes

American  

noun

1. a collection of 305 poems compiled in the 6th century b.c. by Confucius.

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Example Sentences

This was no time for Confucius to take office, and he devoted the leisure thus forced upon him to the compilation of the "Book of Odes" and the "Book of History."

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 by Rudd, John

In Dr. Legge's translation of the "Book of Odes," p.

From Ancient China Simplified by Parker, Edward Harper

In the Book of Odes, Confucius preserved a Ts'in ballad mourning over men so buried alive with their dead king.

From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Morris, Kenneth

Saying which he tuned his lyre, and sang probably some of those songs from his recently compiled Book of Odes which breathed the wisdom of the ancient emperors.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 by Rudd, John

Then we have the Book of Odes, consisting of some three hundred ballads, also rescued by Confucius from oblivion, on which as a basis the great superstructure of modern Chinese poetry has been raised.

From China and the Chinese by Giles, Herbert Allen