Poem

Examples

• You will have my sketches, some time or other, to look ator my tour to reador my poem. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I read a poem or two; whether the spell was in me or in the verse I know not, but my heart filled genially, my pulse rose. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It was neither tale nor poem, neither essay nor history; it neither sung, nor related, not discussed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• We should not interpret a Platonic dialogue any more than a poem or a parable in too literal or matter-of-fact a style. Plato. The Republic.
• Her favorite poem was Lalla Rookh. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Then to hear them fall into ecstasies with each other's creations--worshipping the heroine of such a poem, novel, drama--thinking it fine, divine! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Moreover he outlined and partly drafted an epic poem on the deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• A passion, which is disagreeable in real life, may afford the highest entertainment in a tragedy, or epic poem. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• I know that poem, Catherine said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• It is to her, I believe, we owe that beautiful poem. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• There used to be a poem when I learnt lessons, something about Lo the poor Indians whose something mind! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Epic poem--ten thousand lines-- revolution of July--composed it on the spot--Mars by day, Apollo by night--bang the field-piece, twang the lyre. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I should like to see his poem,' said Mr. Snodgrass. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The poem concluded with this address:-- And when, ah, Winsor! Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The effect of the poem on the Secretary being evidently to astonish him, Mr Boffin was confirmed in his high opinion of it, and was greatly pleased. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• You have a gentleman in your train, who has produced some beautiful little poems, I think, sir. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I used also, sometimes, a little prayer which I took from Thomson's Poems, viz. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• At other times he repeated my favourite poems, or drew me out into arguments, which he supported with great ingenuity. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The fables we meet with in poems and romances put this entirely out of the question. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• At any rate, she always winced when he recurred to the subject of his poems, and usually did her best to divert the conversation into another channel. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It was a volume of his poems, and he felt flattered. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Helstone is like a village in a poem--in one of Tennyson's poems. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• He was author of some elegant verses on the death of Queen Caroline, and published besides some poems and sermons, and died 1788. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I used to know Scott's poems by heart. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• A beautiful harp, drawings of a somewhat voluptuous cast, elegant needle-work, Moore's poems, and a fine pianoforte, formed a part of it. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Yes, very well; but I'm afraid my poems were very bad in those days. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• In addition, there were also poems of more homely character, love songs, war lyrics, and the like. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He adapts mythology like the Homeric poems to the wants of the state, making 'the Phoenician tale' the vehicle of his ideas. Plato. The Republic.
• But you leave out the poems, said Dorothea. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The sonorous tongue of Hellas invests the most commonplace poems with a dignity and a charm which they would lose if translated. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.

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