Horatian Poems - Poems about Horatian

...Birthday Wishes: Horatian Ode Sweet sixteen with no happy birthday cake. Oh, Mother, you're missed but I am bitter. How many hundreds did your calloused hands make? So steady, so sure, why do t......

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...A former lyric to celebrate some bode A lyric to praise someone who is a goad A lyric in praise of the West Wind - an abode Of Autumn and frost; a lovely lyric that rowed Many poets to the highes......

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...I don’t write sonnets, or limerick verse I don’t write haiku, though often terse I don’t write ballads, or Horatian odes I don’t write parables, to self-implode But I do write......

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...Exegi monumentum aere perennius Were that to be true,I would clearly be a genius Like Quintus H. Flaccus who presented us with that trope Inviting every poet to share that selfsame hope Of clo......

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...Strophe The polygamist had a big house Where he chose to warehouse hundreds of girls And women including 29 stepmothers, his father’s spouses 56 of the g......

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...strophe I stand on the snow covered mountain Colorful vase of flowers Slopes with flower beds laden I saw the snow lotus flowers I asked, “Why are you all alone here? Beauty is meant to be a......

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