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Sentences ending with poems

He could have written anything that is in the Plays and Poems. [5]
But write a volume of poems. [6]
Soon after this time, the ideal figures began to take the place of portraits and caricatures, and a new feature appeared in her drawing-books in the form of fragments of verse and short poems. [6]
I would assign the most soulful poets to that district, all heavily armed with their poems. [5]
It helps out the minister's sermon; and a Fourth of July Oration which does not borrow it is like the "Address without a Phoenix" among the Drury Lane mock poems. [6]
This ranks among the finest of Emerson's poems. [6]
The landlady's daughter sent a richly bound copy of Tupper's Poems. [6]
You remember the same thing in other words some where in Kirke White's poems. [6]
A sort of sadness kind of shone in Bryant's poems. [5]
In 1876 he revised his poems, and made the selections from them for the "Little Classic" edition of his works, then called "Selected Poems. [6]

Short sentences using poems

Your poems will inspire . [6]
Selected Poems, 311, 347. [6]
Poems, 293, 310, 318, 339. [6]

Sentences containing poems two or more times

One is struck with the fact that a great number of fragments lie about his poetical workshop: poems begun and never finished; scraps of poems, chips of poems, paving the floor with intentions never carried out. [6]
Pindar's great odes were occasional poems, just as much as our Commencement and Phi Beta Kappa poems are, and yet they have come down among the most precious bequests of antiquity to modern times. [6]
Shakespeare of Stratford was the author of the Plays and Poems, but the author of the Plays and Poems could not have been a butcher's apprentice. [5]
In many of the shorter poems and fragments published since "May-Day," as well as in the "Quatrains" and others of the later poems in that volume, it is sometimes hard to tell what is from the Persian from what is original. [6]
The poems he drops into the basket are those rejected as of no account" "But does he not read the poems before he rejects them? [6]
I soon became acquainted with him, and we used to take long walks together, sometimes taxing each other's memory for poems or passages from poems that had struck our fancy. [6]

More example sentences with the word poems in them

Shall I read you the poems referred to in the one you have just heard, sir? [6]
In the same year these last poems with many others were collected in a small volume, entitled "May-Day, and Other Pieces. [6]
The foolish writers who insist on one's reading through their manuscript poems and stories ought to know how fatal the request is to their prospects. [6]
Gifted Hopkins, who was reading some of his last poems to her, with great delight to both of them. [6]
When Shakespeare came up to London with his first poems in his pocket, the town was so great and full of marvels, and luxury, and entertainment, as to excite the astonishment of continental visitors. [4]
Lurida has stirred up our little community and its neighbors, so that we get essays on all sorts of subjects, poems and stories in large numbers. [6]
Gifted Hopkins, who tried his new poems on her, which was the next best thing to addressing them to her. [6]
Approximations, synopsized speeches, translated poems, artificial flowers and chromos all have a sort of value, but it is small. [5]
From the ground to the top of the unfinished towers is one mass of rich stone-work, the creation of genius that hundreds of years ago knew no other way to write its poems than with the chisel. [4]
In his Preface to the Poems of Mr. W.E. [6]
They are required to take poems and analyze them, dig out their common sense, reduce them to statistics, and reproduce them in a luminous prose translation which shall tell you at a glance what the poet was trying to get at. [5]
It was necessary to say something for the poet's sake,--perhaps for Susan's; for she was in a certain sense responsible for the poems of a youth of genius, of whom she had spoken so often and so enthusiastically. [6]
We must go to his poems to get at his weaknesses. [6]
He understands how to attract poets and artists of all kinds to Athens, he has had the poems of Homer put into writing, and the prophecies of Musaeus collected by Onomakritus. [10]
With two or three exceptions he copies none of those devotional poems which have attracted devout souls.--His poetical sympathies are shown in the fact that one third of the selections are from the seventeenth century. [6]
The influence of this poet is plain to every reader in some of Emerson's poems, and Charles' liking for him was very probably caught from Waldo. [6]
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]
But do you think this temple will outlast the poems of Homer? [10]
The first of these two poems is at war with our common modes of thought. [6]
I would station them on the corners after they had rounded up all the depraved people of the district so they could not escape, and then have them read from their poems to the poor unfortunates. [5]
Channing, William Ellery, the poet: his Wanderer, 263; Poems, 403. [6]
Sometimes people criticize the poems one sends them, and suggest all sorts of improvements. [6]
The standard of the Poems and of the plague-spot-and-bacilli effort is exactly the same. [5]
The Records of the Pansophian Society contain a considerable number of essays, poems, stories, and hints capable of being expanded into presentable dimensions. [6]
That she wrote the Autobiography, and that preface, and the Poems, and the Plague-spot-Bacilli, we are not permitted to doubt. [5]
Compare also with the alleged Poems already quoted. [5]
There is a tall, old-fashioned silver urn, a sugar-bowl of the period of the Empire, in which the poems sent to be read are placed by unseen hands. [6]
While I was suffering from it, I wrote some sadly desponding poems, and a theological essay which took a very melancholy view of creation. [6]
I've learned two Spanish poems and a Castilian dance. [4]
Trust my poems, some of which are unpublished, to the post-office? [6]
Mr. Campbell writes slowly, and it takes him some time to get under way; and just as he has fairly begun out comes one of their poems, that sets the world agog, and quite daunts him, so that he throws by his pen in despair. [4]
The passengers were silent, and appeared to take the matter seriously--a sort of linen-duster congregation, of the class who figure in the homely dialect poems of the Northern bards, Mrs. Farquhar said. [4]
I can mention several poems of his that have shadowy hints which seem to me to come near the region where I think it lies. [6]
Among them are several of his best known poems, such as "The Romany Girl," "Days," "Brahma," "Waldeinsamkeit," "The Titmouse," "Boston Hymn," "Saadi," and "Terminus. [6]
Her only delight seemed to be in listening to Gifted as he read, sometimes with fine declamatory emphasis, sometimes in low, tremulous tones, the various poems enshrined in his manuscript. [6]
As Doltaire had said, the two books of poems I had lent Alixe were there, and between the pages of one lay a letter addressed to me. [11]
Perhaps the chief result left to the world out of a period of heroic exertion, of passion and struggle and accumulation, is a sheaf of poems, or the record by a man of letters of some admirable character. [4]
He was just reading two of his poems to me. [6]
In 1866 I read Dr. Holmes's poems, in the Sandwich Islands. [5]
Mrs. Ellen Hooper published a few poems in its columns which remain, always beautiful, in many memories. [6]
Let us abolish policemen who carry clubs and revolvers, and put in a squad of poets armed to the teeth with poems on Spring and Love. [5]
It is a point of etiquette with us not to press our inquiries about these anonymous poems too sharply, especially if any of them betray sentiments which would not bear rough handling. [6]
Short stories, slender poems, steel engravings, on a level with the common fashion-plates of advertising establishments, gilt edges, resplendent binding,--to manifestations of this sort our lighter literature had very largely run for some years. [6]
Sometimes I repeated poems of my own, sometimes she recited and acted passages from her best parts, amid continual jesting and laughter. [10]
Many of the poems had been long before the public--some of the best, as we have seen, having been printed in "The Dial. [6]
Many little known pieces are included, and some whose merit is other than poetical.--This selection of poems is eminently that of a poet of keen intellectual tastes. [6]
The reader will perceive that all hope is gone here of deciding whether Herbert could have written Tennyson's poems, or whether Tennyson could have dug as much money out of the Heliogabalus Lode as Herbert did. [4]
There are kindly people who may suspect a hidden generosity in that By-law; they may think it is there to protect the Official Reader from the suspicion of having written the poems himself. [5]
They lend a peculiar charm to his poems, but it is not worth while to try to construct a philosophy out of them. [6]
No,--they will bloom over and over again in poems as in the summer fields, to the end of time, always old and always new. [6]
There were also other books-histories, biographies of distinguished people, travels in far lands, poems, especially those of Byron, Scott and Shelley and Moore, which she eagerly absorbed, and appropriated therefrom what was to her liking. [5]
I never saw or heard of anything like it, in prose at least;--do you remember much of Coleridge's Poems, Doctor? [6]
Sometimes, as in one of those poems recently published,--the reader will easily guess which,--the youthful spirit has come over me with such a rush that it made me feel just as I did when I wrote the history of the "One-hoss Shay" thirty years ago. [6]
Will he go on writing such poems to her as "The Rose and the Fern" or "I Like You and I Love You," and be content with the pursuit of that which he never can attain? [6]
It is one of the puzzling phases of Mark Twain's character that, notwithstanding his passion for direct and lucid expression, he should have found pleasure in the poems of Robert Browning. [5]
The prominent characteristic of the Poems is affectation, artificiality; their makeup is a complacent and pretentious outpour of false figures and fine writing, in the sophomoric style. [5]
On the evening of the 27th we had an entertainment, in which Miss Kellogg sang and I read several poems. [6]
He was fond of Stoddard, who was a facile and pleasing writer of poems and descriptive articles. [5]
Of those which must be kept and used I will name three,--meerschaum pipes, violins, and poems. [6]
We had heard much of our classic poets; nay, I knew Schiller's Bell and some of Goethe's poems by heart, and we had heard them mentioned with deep reverence. [10]
Rann Kennedy, who might have been famous if he had ever committed to paper the long poems that he carried about in his head, and the engaging sight of Irving playing the flute for the little Van Warts to dance. [4]
My poems are mere Cairngorms, wrought up, perhaps, with a cunning hand, and may pass well in the market as long as Cairngorms are the fashion; but they are mere Scotch pebbles, after all. [4]
Meantime his name, liberally and variously spelt, had become associated with a number of great plays and poems, as (ostensibly) author of the same. [5]
In the next letter he refers to two exquisite poems by Howells, and the writer of these notes recalls his wonderful reading of them aloud. [5]
The ancients have left us model heroic poems in which the heroes furnish the whole interest of the story, and we are still unable to accustom ourselves to the fact that for our epoch histories of that kind are meaningless. [2]
Here is the latest of a series of annual poems read during the last thirty-four years. [6]
Yrs ever, S. L. C. Aldrich had issued that year a volume of poems, and he presented Clemens with a copy of it during this Boston visit. [5]
How do you know that posterity may not resuscitate these seemingly dead poems, and give their author the immortality for which he longed and labored? [6]
I do not know how much the imagination has to do in shaping the national character, but for half a century English writers, by poems and novels, controlled the imagination of this country. [4]
Yet Emerson's personality is seen in its many intellectual and serious poems, and in the small number of its purely religious selections. [6]
Balbilla described the incident in several long poems which Sabina caused to be engraved on the stone of the colossus. [10]
The poems "Homesick in Heaven" and the longer group of passages coming from the midnight reveries of the Young Astronomer have thoughts in them not so fully expressed elsewhere in my writings. [6]
Well, I think I may venture to say of my own poor self that if Anakreon can make better verses, I understand the art of living quite as well as he, though he writes so many poems upon it. [10]
Two years before, I had been laid up a couple of weeks in the Sandwich Islands, and had read and re-read Doctor Holmes's poems till my mental reservoir was filled up with them to the brim. [5]
Two poems preserve his memory, one that of Ralph Waldo, in which he addresses his memory,-- "Ah, brother of the brief but blazing star," the other his own "Last Farewell," written in 1832, whilst sailing out of Boston Harbor. [6]
Of Emerson's affections his home-life, and those tender poems in memory of his brothers and his son, give all the evidence that could be asked or wished for. [6]
We can watch him, and if he should express any particular interest in your poems, I will, if you say so, carry you up to him and reveal the fact that you are the author of the works that please him. [6]
Sabina quite took her meaning, and suppressing another yawn she said angrily: "In these days we must be indulgent toward a husband who has chosen Ovid's amatory poems as his faithful companion. [10]
For observe, you have here no splendid array of petals such as poets offer you,--nothing but a dry shell, containing, if you will get out what is in it, a few small seeds of poems. [6]
How many poems have been written on Achilles! [10]
There seems to have been one interruption, but there may have been other poems not recorded or remembered. [6]
He wished to have a volume of poems issued by a publisher of recognized standing. [5]
One who has had the mischance to soil his mind by reading certain poems of Swift will never cleanse it to its original whiteness. [6]
The Preface is full of interest for its comments on many of the poems and poets appearing in these selections. [6]
Nobody came down from London; there were no lamenting poems, no eulogies, no national tears--there was merely silence, and nothing more. [5]
I have read forty poems at our successive annual meetings. [6]
In 1846 Emerson's first volume of poems was published. [6]
But it is fifteen-year-old English, and has not grown a month since the same mind produced the Poems. [5]
He thought the fellow that I had described as blubbering over his still-born poems would have been better occupied in earning his living in some honest way or other. [6]
The Tutor naturally falls under suspicion, as he is known to have written and published poems. [6]
He arranges his facts, his rumors, and his poems on his table in full view of the house, and shows you that everything is there--no deception, everything fair and above board. [5]
Shakespeare has put everything into his plays and poems, swept the whole range of human sympathies and passions, and at times is inspired by the sweetest spirit that ever man had. [4]
These poems of Emerson's find the readers that must listen to them and delight in them, as the "Ancient Mariner" fastened upon the man who must hear him. [6]
In 1876 Mr. Emerson published a selection from his poems, adding six new ones, and omitting many. [6]
In December, 1874, Emerson published "Parnassus," a Collection of Poems by British and American authors. [6]
It would be easy to write verses about it, but unwritten poems are so much better! [6]
A few days earlier, Mr. Frank Doubleday sent a volume of Kipling's poems and de Blowitz's Memoirs for entertainment on the ship. [5]
It was not described in the chance romance she took up, nor in the volume of poems she sometimes held in her hand, with a finger inserted in the leaves. [4]
These and the delight in nature with which I here renewed my old bond tempted more than one of us to write, and very different poems, deeper and with more true feeling, than those produced in Kottbus. [10]
But it was consumed with the rest of his property--tools, clothing, mementoes of his dead parents, and a few books which contained his favourite poems and the writings of his master, Straton. [10]

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