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Smith was a prolific composer, writing for a diverse range of ensembles. Among her chamber compositions are four piano quartets, three string quartets and a clarinet sonata (1870), perhaps the first British example, anticipating sonatas by Swinnerton Heap, Prout, Tovey and Stanford. [3]
Sails doth the wind fill, The Tortoise and Snake lay still, Great plans doth we fulfill! A bridge flies from south to north, the deep chasm becomes a thoroughfare henceforth! To my west shall stand a great stone wall, and hold the clouds and rains of Mount Wu as they fall, a great lake shall rise in the high gorge!
"Ode to the West Wind" is an ode, written by Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1819 in arno wood [1] near Florence, Italy. It was originally published in 1820 by Charles Ollier in London as part of the collection Prometheus Unbound , A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts, With Other Poems . [ 2 ]
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The West Wind, an American newspaper The West Wind (painting) , a 1917 painting by Canadian painter Tom Thomson The West Wind (sculpture) , a 1928-9 sculpture by Henry Moore
William Wordsworth's Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood (1807) and Thomas Gray's The Progress of Poesy: A Pindaric Ode (1757) are both written in the Pindaric style. Gray's The Bard: A Pindaric Ode (1757) is a Pindaric ode where the three-part structure is thrice repeated, yielding a longer poem of nine stanzas.
The statue fragment known as the Younger Memnon in the British Museum. Shelley began writing the poem "Ozymandias" in 1817, after the British Museum acquired the Younger Memnon, a head-and-torso fragment of a statue of Ramesses II removed by Italian archeologist Giovanni Battista Belzoni from the Ramesseum, the mortuary temple of Ramesses II at Thebes. [5]
"Ode on a Grecian Urn" is a lyric ode with five stanzas containing 10 lines each. The first stanza begins with the narrator addressing an ancient urn as "Thou still unravished bride of quietness!", initiating a conversation between the poet and the object, which the reader is allowed to observe from a third-person point of view. [8]