Odes may refer to:
- The plural of ode, a type of poem
- Odes (Horace), a collection of poems by the Roman author Horace, circa 65 - 8 BC
- Odes of Solomon, a pseudepigraphic book of the Bible
- Book of Odes (Bible), a Deuterocanonical book of the Bible
- Odes, a music album
- Odes, Victor Hugo's second poetry book.
- ODEs may be an abbreviation for Ordinary differential equations.
- Odic force
Famous quotes containing the word odes:
“They soon became like brothers from community of wrongs;
They wrote each other little odes and sang each other songs;
They told each other anecdotes disparaging their wives;
On several occasions, too, they saved each other’s lives.”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)
“There, full in notes, to ravish all
My Earth, I wonder what to call
My dullness; when
I heare thee, prettie Creature, bring
Thy better odes of Praise, and Sing,
To puzzle men:
Poore pious Elfe!
I am instructed by thy harmonie,
To sing the Time’s uncertaintie,
Safe in my Selfe.”
—George Daniel (1616–1657)
“To be a woman and a writer
is double mischief, for
the world will slight her
who slights “the servile house,” and who would rather
make odes than beds.”
—Dilys Laing (1906–1960)