Odes

An ode is a lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion.  Ode comes from the Greek work “aeidein” which means to sing or chant, although this did not occur in the Romanticism.

Keats Odes:

- Ode on Indolence (1819): “One morn before me were three figures seen,”

- Ode on a Grecian Urn (1819): “Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness,”

- Ode on Melancholy (1819): “No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist”

- Ode to a Nightingale (1819): “My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains”

- Ode to Psyche (1819): “O Goddess! hear these tuneless numbers, wrung”

- Ode to Apollo (1815): “In thy western halls of gold”

- Robin Hood – To a Friend (1818): “No! Those days are gone away,”

- Lines on the Mermaid Tavern (1818): “Souls of Poets dead and gone,”

-To Autumn (1819): “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,”

- Ode to Fancy (1820): “Ever let the Fancy roam,”