Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index From the Greek and Latin poems of the same name written for formal occasions. Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is an example of a Horatian Ode, which contains matched stanzas as compared to, for example, Wordsworth's "Intimations on Immortality." Gray's Pindaric Odes "The Progress of Poesy" and "The Bard" are among the finest examples in the English language. The term was adopted in English music to refer to a setting of a text with alternating choral and solo passages. Odes were usually in several movements and resembled cantatas. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.