Ode on a Grecian Urn

noun

1. a poem (1819) by Keats.

“Ode on a Grecian Urn”

1. (1819) A poem by John Keats . It contains the famous lines “‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty’ — that is all / Ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know.”

Example Sentences

Those six odes — “Ode to a Nightingale,” “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” “Ode on Indolence,” “Ode on Melancholy,” “Ode to Psyche” and “To Autumn” — rise to heights unscaled by most poets and, indeed, unsuspected by many.

From Washington Post