Horatian ode
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Yet Merrill's own repertoire includes a Horatian ode, several forms of sonnets, a slightly modified villanelle and a stretch of Dantesque terza rima.
From Time Magazine Archive
She knew by heart no Horatian ode which, declaiming against time, could shatter the cruelty of impermanence.
From Carnival by Compton MacKenzie
There was Robert H. Messinger, known through his Horatian ode, Give Me the Old, his fame daily expanding in fashionable and literary circles.
From Literary New York Its Landmarks and Associations by Charles Hemstreet
Nor blizzard can destroy it, nor furious rain corrode— Remember, I'm the bard that built the first Horatian ode.
From Something Else Again by Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce) Adams
Like a literary connoisseur who rolls a Horatian ode or a Goethean lyric upon his tongue—even thus he enjoyed these sombre stanzas.
From The Indian Lily and Other Stories by Ludwig Lewisohn
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