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Odes and ditties for children (adults too!) compiled by Holly Hartman I'm the Dragon of Grindly Grun, I breathe fire as hot as the sun. When a knight comes to fight I…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: 1789
by Robert Burns 178817901789ContentsRobin Shure In HairstOde, Sacred To The Memory Of Mrs. Oswald Of AuchencruivePegasus At WanlockheadSappho Redivivus-A FragmentSong-She's Fair And FauseImpromptu…Homework Helper Answer Fun Facts: English
Homework Topics English | Geography | History | Math | Science | Social Studies English Literature Middle English Literature Anglo-Saxon Literature Literary Forms The Novel Short…Brewer's: Odhaerir
The mead or nectar made of Kvasir's blood, kept in three jars. The second of these jars is called Sohn, and the Bohn. Probably the nectar is the “spirit of poetry.” (Scandinavian mythology…Brewer's: Quinbus Flestrin
The man-mountain. So the Lilliputians called Gulliver (chap. ii.). Gay has an ode to this giant. Bards of old of him told, When they said Atlas' head Propped the skies. Gay: Lilliputian…Brewer's: Choriambic Metre
Horace gives us a great variety, but the main feature in all is the prevalence of the choriambus. Specimen translations of two of these metres are subjoined: (1) Horace, 1 Odes, viii.…Brewer's: Odds
By long odds. By a great difference; as, “He is the best man by long odds.” A phrase used by betting men. In horse-racing, odds are offered in bets on favourite horses; so, in the…Brewer's: Alcaic Verse
Alcaïcs. A Greek and Latin metre, so called from Alcoes, a lyric poet, who invented it. Each line is divided into two parts. The first two lines of each stanza of the ninth ode of Horace…Brewer's: Nail in One's Coffin
To drive a nail into one's coffin. To shorten life by anxiety, drink, etc. Topers call a dram “a nail in their coffin,” in jocular allusion to the teetotal axiom. Care to our coffin adds a…Brewer's: Palinode
(3 syl.). A song or discourse recanting a previous one. A good specimen of the palinode is Horace, book i. ode 16, translated by Swift. Watts has a palinode in which he retracts the praise…Trending
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