Poems
['poɪm]
Examples
- 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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