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Sentences starting with poetry

Poetry is commonly thought to be the language of emotion. [6]
Poetry makes out that all the wife worries about is the dangers her husband's running. [5]
Poetry uses the rainbow tints for special effects, but always keeps its essential object in the purest white light of truth.--Will you allow me to pursue this subject a little further? [6]
Poetry settles such questions very simply by saying it is so. [6]
Poetry goes by quality, not by bulk. [4]
Poetry is to prose what the so-called full dress of the ball-room is to the plainer garments of the household and the street. [6]
Poetry is to me a delight and a passion. [6]
Poetry is not in his line. [4]
Poetry is a good deal a matter of heart-beats, and the circulation is more languid in the later period of life. [6]
Poetry and Imagination, 283; subdivisions: Bards and Trouveurs, Creation, Form, Imagination, Melody, Morals, Rhythm, Poetry, Transcendency, Veracity, 283, 284; quoted, 325. [6]

Sentences ending with poetry

To Clemens he wrote: "You have touched me in regard to him, and I will deal gently with his poetry. [5]
Those are good words for poetry. [5]
They are not without talent, and he ever and anon relieves his prose jog-trot by breaking into a canter of poetry. [6]
In this volume will be found "Brahma," "Days," and others which are well known to all readers of poetry. [6]
For a little while every day, Mrs. Maturin read aloud, usually from books of poetry. [9]
As we wind up the slope, the tinkling of multitudinous bells from the herd comes to us, which is also in the domain of poetry. [4]
The materials of this biographical fable are facts, rumors, and poetry. [5]
If there's one thing that can make me madder than another, it's this sappy, damned maritime poetry! [5]
Well, I like the poetry. [5]
It is not the multitude of remembered passages which settles the rank of a metrical composition as poetry. [6]

Short sentences using poetry

We admit this in poetry. [4]
It was very good poetry. [5]
Who writes poetry about him? [5]
Herrick, Robert, poetry, 281. [6]
Persian Poetry, 224. [6]
Poetry, 210. [6]

Sentences containing poetry two or more times

There is no woman but thinks that her husband, the green-grocer, could write poetry if he had given his mind to it, or else she thinks small beer of poetry in comparison with an occupation or accomplishment purely vegetable. [4]
The Essay on Persian Poetry, published in the "Atlantic Monthly" in 1858, should be studied by all readers who are curious in tracing the influence of Oriental poetry on Emerson's verse. [6]
Nor was it a theology devoid of inspiration and poetry, though poetry might be called its complement. [9]
The following is a brave attempt at a solution, but it failed to liquify: When they are going to say some prose or poetry before they say the poetry or prose they must put a semicolon just after the introduction of the prose or poetry. [5]

More example sentences with the word poetry in them

Twenty of these years he was the scoff of the world, and his poetry a by-word of scorn. [6]
I used to worship the mighty genius of Michael Angelo--that man who was great in poetry, painting, sculpture, architecture--great in every thing he undertook. [5]
He speaks of Wordsworth's Ode on the Intimations of Immortality as the high-water mark of the poetry of this century. [6]
The poetry of Wordsworth may have suggested the prose of Emerson, but the prose loses nothing by the comparison. [6]
The sky, the woods, the waters, the storms, life, death love, the hope and vision of eternity,--these are images that write themselves in poetry in every soul which has anything of the divine gift. [6]
Shall a man who in his younger days has written poetry, or what passed for it, continue to attempt it in his later years? [6]
New poetry; by which, he says, he means chiefly old poetry that is new to the reader. [6]
The invocation with which the letter ended was, as Kingsley Bey afterwards put it, "a pitch of poetry and humanity never reached except by a Wagner opera. [11]
On the occasion when he had quoted a verse of poetry to them, one of them said to him with a sidelong glance: "You seem to be dead-struck on Nature, Ingolby. [11]
No matter of what he wrote or spoke, his words, his tones, his looks, carried the evidence of a sincerity which pervaded them all and was to his eloquence and poetry like the water of crystallization; without which they would effloresce into mere rhetoric. [6]
That's the reason we have so much poetry that impresses one like sets of faultless cabinet-furniture made by machinery. [4]
Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? [6]
But Tom Canty was not sorry; for this loyal uproar was sweeter music to him than any poetry, no matter what its quality might be. [5]
I said it was expensive, unnecessary, and awkwardly constructed; there were no descriptive passages in it, no poetry, no sentiment no heroes, no plot, no pictures--not even wood-cuts. [5]
He is sincere, warmhearted,--his poetry shows that,--not in haste to be famous, and he looks to me as if he only wanted love to steady him. [6]
Star: "hitch your wagon to a star," 252, 253; stars in poetry, 324. [6]
That may be very good Dutch Flat poetry, but it won't do in the metropolis. [5]
It betrays its various moods by aspects which are the commonplaces of poetry, as smiles and dimples and wrinkles and frowns. [6]
Besides Latin, I used to try to teach the cows a little poetry, and it is a very good plan. [4]
I took them up again a few years ago, after reading with genuine pleasure in Otto Ribbeck's masterpiece, The History of Roman Poetry, the portions devoted to Plautus and Terence. [10]
The scientist has unlimited resources; all he has to do is to be vague, and look prodigious; but the parson must have his poetry as a monopoly, or he is lost to sight, and memory. [11]
It was not understood that everybody can learn to make poetry, just as they can learn the more difficult tricks of juggling. [6]
Even one or two purely Protestant books of missionary enterprise, found in a box in her dead mother's room, had had all the charms of poetry and adventure. [11]
I was seasoned to that kind of poetry in my early days by the verses of Tate and Brady, which I used to hear "entuned in the nose ful swetely," accompanied by vigorous rasping of a huge bass-viol. [6]
Dryfoos seems, somehow, to take the poetry and the pleasure out of the thing. [8]
It is sacred to poetry and tradition--it is dream-land. [5]
It seemed plain to me that too much space was given to poetry and romance, and not enough to statistics and agriculture. [5]
Besides, I have to deal with one of those by no means rare cases, where poetry can approach nearer the truth than prudent, watchful prose. [10]
He has little time for the poetry of haying, as he struggles along, filling the air with the wet mass which he shakes over his head, and picking his way with short legs and bare feet amid the short and freshly cut stubble. [4]
Many of the thoughts which run through all his prose and poetry may be found here. [6]
It was during this time that some good Catholics came to him with an heretical Protestant suggestion to carve a couplet or verse of poetry on the tombstones they ordered. [11]
I have read this kind of rot all my life in poetry and tales and such-like rubbage. [5]
I look upon this incontinence as merely the redundancy of a susceptibility to poetry which makes all the bards my daily treasures, and I can well run the risk of being ridiculous once a year for the benefit of happy reading all the other days. [6]
In his poetry there is not merely this atmosphere, but there is always a mirage in the horizon. [6]
It opened to them a boundless realm of poetry and imagination. [4]
And sometimes, when the yacht glided over smoother seas, it was his pleasure to read to her, even poetry and the great epics. [9]
The Secretary of the Treasury said: "This is the meddlesome ass that came to recommend me to put poetry and conundrums in my report, as if it were an almanac. [5]
I like all the speeches and the poetry, too. [5]
And by contrasting the powers and limitations of two such young persons as Gifted Hopkins and Cyprian Eveleth, we may better appreciate the nature of that divine inspiration which gives to poetry the superiority it claims over every other form of human expression. [6]
His mind had the poetry of a free, simple--even wild-life, but he had no instinct for vice in the name of amusement. [11]
Leave that to the poetry muffs. [5]
Don't ever think the poetry is dead in an old man because his forehead is wrinkled, or that his manhood has left him when his hand trembles! [6]
Dyck's tempestuous nature, the poetry and imagination of him, would quickly respond to French culture, to the new orders of the new day in France. [11]
I said that the main popularity of the almanac was derived from its poetry and conundrums, and that a few conundrums distributed around through his Treasury report would help the sale of it more than all the internal revenue he could put into it. [5]
It was like the magic glow which poetry and romance have shed over this enchanting place. [4]
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]
No poetry at the expense of truth. [5]
I agree with The Dictator that poetry is little more than the ashes of passion; still it may show that the flame has had its sweep where you find it, unless, indeed, it is shoveled in from another man's fireplace. [6]
I broke into the conversation, which was about poetry and cabbage and art, and said to my wife-- "Do you remember when the news came to Paris----" "Of the killing of the Prince? [5]
In spite of the consolations of poetry, however, the night wore on slowly, and soothing sleep tried in vain to get a lodgment in the jolting wagon. [4]
I have felt that the poetry of science lost its wings when the last powder of projection had been cast into the crucible, and the fire of the last transmutation furnace went out. [6]
The truth was, that the old classical scholar did not care a great deal for modern English poetry. [6]
But very near that precipitous border line there is a charmed region where, if the statelier growths of philosophy die out and disappear, the flowers of poetry next the very edge of the chasm have a peculiar and mysterious beauty. [6]
Who can doubt that poetry will revive and lead in a new age, as the star in the constellation Harp, which now flames in our zenith, astronomers announce shall one day be the pole-star for a thousand years? [6]
I will admit that once, when a compositor in the Ledger establishment, I did set up some of that poetry, but for a worse offence than that no indictment can be found against me. [5]
They belong to that middle region between science and poetry which sensible men, as they are called, are very shy of meddling with. [6]
Well, after that that man never could write prose, but he could write poetry. [5]
Music and poetry, that had elevated her soul, clever conversation, that had developed her mind, were not to be found here. [10]
It is certain, that freedom from household routine, variety of character and talent, variety of work, variety of means of thought and instruction, art, music, poetry, reading, masquerade, did not permit sluggishness or despondency; broke up routine. [6]
Mandeville said further, that as to poetry, he did not know much about that, and there was not much he cared to read except parts of Shakespeare and Homer, and passages of Milton. [4]
How can you tell that anything is poetry, I should like to know, if there is neither a regular line with just so many syllables, nor a rhyme? [6]
She had a taste for poetry, and an admiration of poets; but, what was better, she was modest and simple, and a perfect sister and mother and grandmother to the two little forlorn twins who had been stranded on the Widow Hopkins's doorstep. [6]
Pity but somebody'd take that poor old lunatic and dig all that poetry rubbage out of him. [5]
But the lexicographer Suidas enumerates the works of Horapollo, the philologer and commentator on Greek poetry, without naming the Hieroglyphica, which is the only treatise alluded to by Stephanus. [10]
The thoughts Jerusalem suggests are full of poetry, sublimity, and more than all, dignity. [5]
It talked a strange sort of philosophy in the language of poetry. [6]
My soul was steeped in unimagined colour, and in the memory of one rapturous instant is gathered what I was soon to see of Greece, is focussed the meaning of history, poetry and art. [9]
The older novels sprang from the poetry of the Middle Ages; their themes were knightly adventure, their personages were the nobility; the common people did not figure in them. [4]
Milton had been speaking of "Logic" and of "Rhetoric," and spoke of poetry "as being less subtile and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate. [6]
They have invaded some of our recent poetry as the canker-worms gather on our elms in June. [6]
I am liable, some day, to want to print my opinion on jurisprudence, or Homeric poetry, or international law, and I shall do it. [5]
A pertinacious arguer, so much so that sometimes he watched my awakening in order to continue a discussion on some topic of science, poetry, or practical life, cut short by the chime of the small hours, he never lost his mild and amiable temper. [6]
Pierre, who knew she was very stupid, sometimes attended, with a strange feeling of perplexity and fear, her evenings and dinner parties, where politics, poetry, and philosophy were discussed. [2]
The only time she ever cared to listen-- at school, though quick and clever, she had never cared for the printed page--was when, by chance, poetry or verses were read or recited. [11]
I'm going to send you a piece of poetry which the Saadat wrote, and tore in two, and threw away. [11]
I do not seem, to care for poetry any more. [5]
I do not seem to care for poetry any more. [5]
I shall never see the word hawthorn in poetry again without the image of the snowy but far from chilling canopy rising before me. [6]
Politics, literature, arts, sciences, universal brotherhood and sisterhood, nothing was omitted; neither the poetry of Tennyson, nor the philosophy of Margaret Fuller; neither the virtues of association, nor of unbolted wheat. [4]
Like De la Riviere, she perceived a strange combination of the gentleman and--something else; but, unlike him, she saw also a light in the face and eyes that might be genius, poetry, adventure. [11]
When a person reads the noble verses about the cloud-cap'd towers, he ought not to follow it immediately with Good friend for Iesus sake forbeare, because he will find the transition from great poetry to poor prose too violent for comfort. [5]
One does not read prose at such a time, but poetry. [5]
I don't understand quite what the poetry means, but maybe you will. [11]
This element is present in the mortuary poetry of Philadelphia degree of development. [5]
The getting-in of potatoes and corn is a different thing; that is the prose, but nutting is the poetry, of farm life. [4]
It is scarcely possible to touch upon our recent fiction, any more than upon our recent poetry, without taking into account what is called the Esthetic movement--a movement more prominent in England than elsewhere. [4]
When he wrote poetry, he commonly selected subjects which seemed adapted to poetical treatment,--apparently thinking that all things were not equally calculated to inspire the true poet's genius. [6]
Ponkapog still writes poetry, but the old-time fire has mostly gone out of it. [5]
All the best poetry the world has known is full of such resemblances. [6]
Everybody does write poetry that goes there. [6]
The passion of poetry seizes on him every spring, he says,--yet oftentimes he complains, that, when he feels most, he can sing least. [6]
When I write poetry I do not get any wages; often I lose money by it. [5]
The standards of poetry are Shakespeare, Homer, Isaiah, and David. [4]
If all the poetry and nonsense that have been discharged upon the fountains and the bland scenery of this region were collected in a book, it would make a most valuable volume to burn. [5]
In this guise poet, sculptor, or artist might have represented Imagination, the Fairy Tale, Lyric Poetry, the Dream, or Compassion. [10]
Outside of the pages of poetry he had never experienced longing like that which had tortured him during the past few days. [10]
One could turn out poetry here without any trouble at all. [5]
She wrote the opening chapter, and introduced a lovely blonde simpleton who talked nothing but pearls and poetry and who was virtuous to the verge of eccentricity. [5]
And this is only recovered for him after he is dead, and his poetry is left alone to speak for his name. [4]
In any case--can one be pardoned for quoting poetry in these days? [11]

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