Use poem in a sentence
Sentences ending with poem
- I wish Osgood would sue for stealing Holmes's poem. [5]
- I liked Doctor Van Dyke's poem. [5]
- Besides, he said them without any kind of affectation, and with a certain turn of dry humour, as if he were inwardly laughing at the idea of the poem. [11]
- It is certain that the Mistress did not write the poem. [6]
- Don't you see that all this is just as true of a poem? [6]
- But many people seem to like them, and I don't doubt it is as exciting to Gifted to write them as it is to a great genius to express itself in a poem. [6]
- Which comes very near being our best poem. [4]
- I could no more concentrate on them than I could have written a poem. [9]
- Please to inform me of your charge for said poem. [6]
- It is a little difficult to know what she expected of him, since she did not know herself the methods, perhaps; of the Viking in Longfellow's poem. [9]
Short sentences using poem
- This garden was Abel's poem. [6]
- A Poem. [6]
Sentences containing poem two or more times
- On another occasion, when Bynner had written a poem to Clara Clemens, her father pretended great indignation that the first poem written by Bynner to any one in his household should not be to him, and threatened revenge. [5]
- The poem just quoted shows that he was in love with Cornelia, but a month later he is in love with Harriet again, and there is a poem to prove it. [5]
- Shakespeare sends him a poem just made, and as good a poem as the man could write himself. [4]
More example sentences with the word poem in them
- I must ask your indulgence while I quote a few verses from a poem of my own, printed long ago under the title "At the Pantomime. [6]
- Emerson was sixty-three years old, the year I have referred to as that of the grand climacteric, when he read to his son the poem he called "Terminus," beginning: "It is time to be old, To take in sail. [6]
- If I were writing a poem you would expect, as a matter of course, that there would be a digression now and then. [6]
- The first letter was accompanied by the Poem "The Humble-bee," which was first published by Mr. Clarke in the "Western Messenger," from the autograph copy, which begins "Fine humble-bee! [6]
- It was a vision!--a miracle!--an anthem sung in stone, a poem wrought in marble! [5]
- Hardness, stubbornness, pride, vindictiveness--these may sometimes reside in a young wife and mother of nineteen, but they are not charged against Harriet Shelley outside of that poem, and one has no right to insert them into her character on such shadowy "evidence" as that. [5]
- He knew the very best background for a poem of deep and refined sentiment and pathetic melancholy was one where great and satisfying merriment had prepared the spirit for the powerful contrast. [5]
- He had first used it in a title of a poem which a few years before, during one of Orion's absences, he had published in the paper. [5]
- Ordinarily when an unsigned poem sweeps across the continent like a tidal wave whose roar and boom and thunder are made up of admiration, delight, and applause, a dozen obscure people rise up and claim the authorship. [5]
- I remember a translation from Goethe, 'The Ghost-Seer,' which he may have written for it, and a poem upon the White Mountains. [6]
- On relating this to my friend Mr. Buchanan Read, he informed me that he too, had used the image,--perhaps referring to his poem called "The Twins. [6]
- Motley by that time had arrived at talking German fluently; he occupied himself not only in translating Goethe's poem "Faust," but tried his hand even in composing German verses. [6]
- The last came this very morning, in the shape of a neat and brief poem, from New Orleans. [6]
- Should I send this poem to the publishers, or not? [6]
- One day during this period I remembered my Poem of the World, and instantly had the box brought in which I kept it among German favours, little pink notes, and similar trophies. [10]
- For the last thirty years I have been in the habit of receiving a volume of poems or a poem, printed or manuscript--I will not say daily, though I sometimes receive more than one in a day, but at very short intervals. [6]
- The state of things in London is best learned, however, from the satirical poem to which I have already alluded as having been written at the period referred to. [6]
- In regard to the whole Poem of the World I will observe that, up to the time I finished the last line, I had never studied the kindred systems of the Neo-Platonics or the Gnostics. [10]
- The thrill of the voices shows that the love of Shelley and Mary was already upward of a fortnight old; therefore it had been born within the month of May--born while Harriet was still trying to get her poem by heart, we think. [5]
- Is n't she the very picture of what a poet's love should be,--a poem herself,--a glorious lyric,--all light and music! [6]
- Could I compose the poem, sir, do you think? [5]
- The effect of the poem was spoiled. [5]
- It differed from the other two series in containing a poem of considerable length, published in successive portions. [6]
- Benedictus had followed the magnificent poem with rapture. [10]
- A peep under the lid of the sugar-bowl has shown me that there is another poem ready for the company. [6]
- She began with the last poem but one. [10]
- Then there came the inspiration to write his poem on Sir John Franklin, and he had done so, winning the college prize for poetry. [11]
- But besides all the impressions that furnished the stuff of the poem, there has been hard work to get the management of that wonderful instrument I spoke of,---the great organ, language. [6]
- Anybody can write the first line of a poem, but it is a very difficult task to make the second line rhyme with the first. [5]
- The clown of the first edition of "Monadnoc" "with heart of cat and eyes of bug," disappears in the after-thought of the later version of the poem, but the eye that recognized him and the nature that recoiled from him were there still. [6]
- At dinner in the evening, a well-written original poem was recited with spirit by one of the ship's captains, and thirteen regular toasts were washed down with several baskets of champagne. [5]
- I find in the Essay on "Art" many of the thoughts with which we are familiar in Emerson's poem, "The Problem. [6]
- Observe, too, how the drying process takes place in the stuff of a poem just as in that of a violin. [6]
- This poem has the dignity of "Lycidas" without its refrigerating classicism, and with all the tenderness of Cowper's lines on the receipt of his mother's picture. [6]
- I often thought that this novel might perhaps share the fate of my Poem of the World, and find its way into the fire. [10]
- Was it surprising that the Gazette should contain a poem with the doctor's well-known ear-marks upon it? [9]
- I read her that poem of Moody's--you know it:-- 'Here, where the moors stretch free In the high blue afternoon, Are the marching sun and the talking sea. [9]
- Then, and in that place, he read to his son the poem afterwards published in the "Atlantic Monthly," and in his second volume, under the title "Terminus. [6]
- I see, now, that I never understood that poem before. [5]
- In the mood suggested by my story I have ventured on the poem that follows. [6]
- Miss Carvel, so Stephen learned with alarm, was to read a poem by Mrs. Browning, but was "unavoidably prevented. [9]
- They are the spontaneous outflow of young hearts easily excited to gratitude for the pleasure which some story or poem has given them, and recognizing their own thoughts, their own feelings, in those expressed by the author, as if on purpose for them to read. [6]
- Who was that silly body that wanted Burns to alter "Scots wha hae," so as to lengthen the last line, thus Here is a little poem I sent a short time since to a committee for a certain celebration. [6]
- And yet we should rather call it a versified criticism than a poem in the full sense of that word. [6]
- What that something should be varied from day to day according to the book, the poem, the history or biography that he was last reading. [4]
- What the poem seems to say is, that a person would be coldly ungrateful who could consent to count and consider little spots and flaws in such a warm, great, satisfying sun as Harriet is. [5]
- I mean to say that a genuine poem is capable of absorbing an indefinite amount of the essence of our own humanity,--its tenderness, its heroism, its regrets, its aspirations, so as to be gradually stained through with a divine secondary color derived from ourselves. [6]
- The eschatology which rests upon an English poem and an Indian fable belongs to the realm of reverie and of imagination rather than the domain of reason. [6]
- You and I read a novel or a poem to help our imaginations to build up palaces, and transport us into the emotional states and the felicitous conditions of the ideal characters pictured in the book we are reading. [6]
- He wrote a poem, said to be a plagiarism, which contains the quotation at the beginning of this chapter: "For bills may come, and bills may go, but I go on forever. [9]
- If the entire poem, of several hundred lines, was "declined with thanks" by an unfeeling editor, that is no reason why you should not hear a verse or two of it. [6]
- Falsehood vitiates a poem, a painting, exactly as it does a life. [4]
- I had a poem that I wanted to print just here. [6]
- It was a poem Jasmine quoted to him a fortnight ago--Browning's 'Grammarian,' and he stopped me at these words: "'Thither our path lies; wind we up the heights: Wait ye the warning? [11]
- Well, if the poem is better evidence than the letter, we must let it stand at that. [5]
- It was a poem in praise of marriage passion; it was a paean proclaiming the accomplishment of life. [11]
- The first long poem I wrote of my own impulse was a description of the wonderful forms assumed by the stalactite formations in the Sophie Cave in Switzerland, which we had visited. [10]
- He was mightily pleased with the reception of that poem of his about the chaise. [6]
- Hardly any one perfectly understands a poem but the poet himself. [6]
- Here is the passage of his Poem the Young Astronomer read to us. [6]
- There were seven papers in the number, and a poem on the last page of the cover, and he had found some graphic comment for each. [8]
- But having read our company so much of the Professor's talk about age and other subjects connected with physical life, I took the next Sunday morning to repeat to them the following poem of his, which I have had by me some time. [6]
- Many have seen or heard of a satirical poem, written by one of our own countrymen also, about forty years since, and called "Terrible Tractoration. [6]
- A poor poem or essay does not do much harm after all; nobody reads it who is like to be seriously hurt by it. [6]
- She was the only person to whom I read my Poem of the World, as far as it was completed. [10]
- The poem is one of his noblest; he could not fold his robes about him with more of serene dignity than in these solemn lines. [6]
- Herbert, George: Poem on Man, 102; parallel, 170; poetry, 281; a line quoted, 345. [6]
- The only "evidence" offered that Harriet was hard and proud and standing out against a reconciliation is a poem--the poem in which Shelley beseeches her to "bid the remorseless feeling flee" and "pity" if she "cannot love. [5]
- I was once offered pay for a poem in praise of a certain stove polish, but I declined. [6]
- During a matter of twenty years I was seldom at a banquet where Willie Winter was not also present, and where he did not read a charming poem written for the occasion. [5]
- The main thought of this poem is a painful one to some persons. [6]
- Perhaps the distinctness of my recollection is due to my making it the subject of a poem, which I still possess. [10]
- Mr. Howells--that poem of his is admirable; that's the way to treat a person. [5]
- It has its obscurities, its extravagances, but as a poem it is noble and inspiring. [6]
- It is a not uninteresting question whether Emerson has bequeathed to the language any essay or poem which will resist the flow of time like "the adamant of Shakespeare," and remain a classic like the Essays of Addison or Gray's Elegy. [6]
- Old Betta could not hear the verses too often, and cried with joy, not at the poem, but at the wonderful change it had produced in her darling. [10]
- This poem was not fitted to attract worshippers. [6]
- The poem had no great merit, but under the abbreviated title it could hardly fail to invite notice. [5]
- There is no need to say that this poem is genuine and in earnest, for its proofs are written all over its face. [5]
- The praise of my hero had come from my heart, so the poem found favour, and in circles so wide that the most prominent man in the neighbourhood, Prince Puckler-Muskau, sent for my verses. [10]
- I have in mind a poem just now which is familiar to you all, familiar to everybody. [5]
- He spoke to me once or twice about another poem of similar character he wanted to read me, which I told him I would listen to and criticize. [6]
- Presently one addressed me by name, and, on inquiry, I found him to be the gentleman who was with me in the pulpit as Orator on the occasion of another Phi Beta Kappa poem, one delivered at New Haven. [6]
- The Judas of Matthew Arnold's poem would have cast his cloak over those marble shoulders, if he had found himself in St. Paul's, and have earned another respite. [6]
- She did so love to hear him read his poems,--and Clement had never written that "little bit of a poem to Susie," which she had asked him for so long ago! [6]
- He addresses a long and loving poem to her, in which both passion and worship appear: Exhibit A "O thou Whose dear love gleamed upon the gloomy path Which this lone spirit travelled, . [5]
- Its one conspicuous line, "And fired the shot heard round the world," must not take to itself all the praise deserved by this perfect little poem, a model for all of its kind. [6]
- To all intriguers life has lost romance; there is no poem left in nature; no ideal, personal, public or national, detains them in its wholesome influence; no great purpose allures them; they have no causes for which to die--save themselves. [11]
- What the mulberry leaf is to the silk-worm, the author's book, treatise, essay, poem, is to the critical larva; that feed upon it. [6]
- A poem is just as porous as the meerschaum;--the more porous it is, the better. [6]
- The story tells itself in the biographical preface to his poem. [6]
- She evidently thought it was time to change the subject of conversation, for she turned to me and said, "You promised to read us the poem you read before your old classmates the other evening. [6]
- So you see it must take time to bring the sentiment of a poem into harmony with our nature, by staining ourselves through every thought and image our being can penetrate. [6]
- However, whatever else it may be, it is in any case a great and stately metaphysical poem, and deeply fascinating. [5]
- Every poem that is worthy of the name, no matter how easily it seems to be written, represents a great amount of vital force expended at some time or other. [6]
- Gray's "Elegy," it is true, is full of lines we all remember, and is a great poem, if that term can be applied to any piece of verse of that length. [6]
- Because a poem is an "occasional" one, it does not follow that it has not taken as much time and skill as if it had been written without immediate, accidental, temporary motive. [6]
- The third poem in the volume, "The Problem," should have stood first in order. [6]
- If one is in the right mood when he or she writes an occasional poem, it seems as if nothing could have been easier. [6]
- For the deception in the case of the correspondent who invents "news" is of the same quality as the lack of sincerity in a poem or in a prose fiction; there is a moral and probably a mental defect in both. [4]
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