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Sentences starting with poets

Poets are never young, in one sense. [6]
Poets who come to recite their verses and reformers who come to explain their projects are among the most formidable of earthly visitations. [6]
Poets read their own compositions in a singsong sort of way; but they do seem to love 'em so, that I always enjoy it. [6]
Poets have sung of it; prophets have had visions of it; statesmen have striven for it; patriots have died for it. [4]
Poets have, as a rule, more than the average nervous sensibility and irritability. [6]

Sentences ending with poets

Crozier was speaking with the look of the man who hypnotises himself, who "sees things," who dreams as only the gambler and the plunger on the turf do dream, not even excepting the latter-day Irish poets. [11]
Here the young voices not only extolled the warlike deeds of the brave Prussians, but recited with equal fervor all the songs with which true patriotism has inspired German poets. [10]
They belong to visionaries and to poets. [6]
You don't mean to say that George Eliot, and Mrs. Gaskell, and George Sand, and Mrs. Browning, before her marriage and severe attack of spiritism, are less true to art than contemporary men novelists and poets. [4]
So it happens that the latter produces active, practical men, and, under favorable circumstances, great scholars, but few artists and poets. [10]
I always had taken an interest in young people who wanted to become poets. [5]
Nature had sent one cuckoo from her aviary to sing his double note for me, that I might not pass away from her pleasing show without once hearing the call so dear to the poets. [6]
The natural antagonists of the religious pessimists are the men of science, especially the evolutionists, and the poets. [6]
Many of these favorites had been read to illustrate his lectures on the English poets. [6]
This shows itself conspicuously in the modern poets. [6]

Short sentences using poets

Poets, to be sure! [6]
Hazlitt, William: British Poets, 21. [6]
Poets! [6]

Sentences containing poets two or more times

David, the royal poet, was no less possessed by the divinity when he sang to his lyre than other poets have been, but he does not seem to have known that delight felt by our poets in overcoming the difficulties they have raised for themselves. [10]
Notwithstanding the prevalent notion that the French poets are the sympathetic heirs of classic culture, it appears to me that they are not so imbued with the true classic spirit, art, and mythology as some of our English poets, notably Keats and Shelley. [4]

More example sentences with the word poets in them

And so, many youthful poets have written as if their hearts were old before their time; their pensive morning twilight has been as cool and saddening as that of evening in more common lives. [6]
Some will tell you that the best poets never are. [6]
These men, of whom very few could read and write, had at their command all the most effective verses of their poets having thousands of lines stored in their minds. [10]
But for Nitetis, who had been spoilt for such things by an intimate acquaintance with the best Greek poets, they could have but little charm. [10]
I feel grateful when I can permit our poets to adorn my leisure for a brief space. [10]
O yes, poets we shall have, mythology, symbols, religion of our own. [6]
That is the way with poets and scholars; they always sign without reading. [5]
What he experienced was love as the poets had sung it. [10]
Once when he was bunching the most illustrious kings and conquerors and poets and prophets and pirates and beggars together--just a brick-pile--I was shamed into putting in a word for man, and asked him why he made so much difference between men and himself. [5]
He, it is true--Moses I mean--only struck water from the rock for the use of the body, while to our philosophers and poets we owe inexhaustible springs to refresh the mind and soul. [10]
It is melancholy to think how many epic poets have been lost in the tea-trade, how many dramatists (though the age of the drama has passed) have wasted their genius in great mercantile and mechanical enterprises. [4]
I don't like to say it,--he continued,--but poets commonly have no larger stock of tunes than hand-organs; and when you hear them piping up under your window, you know pretty well what to expect. [6]
You poets ought to know that. [6]
He only longed to be hopeful once more, to enjoy the present--as so many philosophers and poets advised--and especially the show in the Circus, his last pleasure, perhaps; to forget the imminent future. [10]
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]
In support of this, Virgil and two other Roman poets are quoted. [5]
Both writers had this in common: they were poets and moralists. [6]
Then he brought the world-renowned Turkish coffee that poets have sung so rapturously for many generations, and I seized upon it as the last hope that was left of my old dreams of Eastern luxury. [5]
Croesus had enjoyed the society of the Samian poets and sculptors. [10]
A youth from the school of poets, attired as the goddess of Fame, bewailed in well-rhymed verses that for a long time no one had given her so much to do as the Emperor Charles. [10]
This contest of the poets was an old custom with them. [4]
And how ardently the poets Theocritus and Zenodotus extolled his work to the skies! [10]
It has been the pet of the poets, but it is not spoiled, and is just as full of enchantment as ever. [4]
In "The Test," the Muse says:-- "I hung my verses in the wind, Time and tide their faults may find; All were winnowed through and through, Five lines lasted good and true ... Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know. [6]
I would assign the most soulful poets to that district, all heavily armed with their poems. [5]
Had not even the Greek poets sung of the Nile as the most venerable of rivers? [10]
Nothing grows in the flat, burning desert around it but weeds and the Dead Sea apple the poets say is beautiful to the eye, but crumbles to ashes and dust when you break it. [5]
More than this, the first efforts of poets and story-tellers are very commonly palimpsests: beneath the rhymes or the fiction one can almost always spell out the characters which betray the writer's self. [6]
Rameses related the tale of his fight at Kadesh, and the high-priest of Heliopolis observed In later times the poets will sing of thy deeds. [10]
We will read Sorel together he is beautiful, like poetry--and the great poets, Dante and Petrarch and Tasso--yes, and d'Annunzio. [9]
What disturbs me," she continued, "is to find you and the poets founding your new freedom on new justifications, discarding the old law only to make a new one,--as though we could ever get away from necessities, escape from disagreeable things, except in dreams. [9]
This is the season that all the poets celebrate. [4]
Speakers, leaders in science, clergymen better than famous, and famous too, poets by the half-dozen, singers with voices like angels, financiers, wits, three of the best laughers in the Commonwealth, engineers, agriculturists,--all forms of talent and knowledge he pretended were represented in that meeting. [6]
Suppose one should say to any young wife: "I find that your husband is poring over the Italian poets and being instructed in the beautiful Italian language by the lovely Cornelia Robinson"--would that cozy picture fail to rise before her mind? [5]
The servility of Roman poets and authors, who were unwilling frankly to acknowledge the light emanating so brilliantly from the foe of the state and the Imperator, solved it to her disadvantage. [10]
Now, therefore, I realize that there's no more beneficent institution than this penny fund of yours, and I want all the poets to know this. [5]
Tales I have read, but a few, and John Milton, and Chaucer, and Bacon, and Montaigne, and Arab poets also, whose books my uncle sent me. [11]
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]
As for the poets, they can take their choice of Emerson's poetical or prose estimate of the great Mystic, but they cannot very well accept both. [6]
English and alien poets, statesmen, artists, heroes, battles, plagues, cataclysms, revolutions--we shoveled them all into the English fences according to their dates. [5]
Why, take your poets, now, say Browning and Tennyson. [6]
Farmers, sailors, astronomers, poets, lovers, condemned criminals, all find it different, according to the eyes with which they severally look. [6]
The eight American poets on the list averaged seventy-three and a half, nearly, and they are not all dead yet. [6]
A good many poets must be classed with this group of vertebrates. [6]
I suppose you poets may like white meat best, very probably; you had rather have a wing than a drumstick, I dare say. [6]
The rank of poets is a point of very unstable equilibrium. [6]
I think the poets have an advantage and a disadvantage as compared with the steadier-going people. [6]
Pride knew the poets backwards, and was smart at French. [11]
This habit of pensioning officials, as well as musicians and poets, is very agreeable to the Germans. [4]
He was in particular partial to the poets, could quote at will from Gay and Thomson and Goldsmith and Gray, and even from Shakespeare, much to my own astonishment and humiliation. [9]
I never see one of them poets yet that knowed anything. [5]
This, surely, had not been the fashion of other loves, called unlawful, the classic instances celebrated by the poets of all ages rose to mock me. [9]
One did not need to know them to perceive at the first glance that they were labourers in the department of intellectual life, though whether as scientists or poets even a practised observer would have found it difficult to determine. [10]
Our young poets need not be alarmed. [6]
This is not more evident in the contemporary poets than in the chroniclers of that day. [4]
At the Three Moors one sees a visitors' book, begun in 1800, which contains the names of many noble and great people, as well as poets and doctors and titled ladies, and much sentimental writing in French. [4]
There were cabinet ministers, ambassadors, admirals, generals, canons, Oxford professors, novelists, playwrights, poets, and a number of people equipped with rank and brains. [5]
No wonder so many poets die young! [6]
But that young man lives in a world beyond the imagination of poets, let me tell you. [6]
I knew some Latin and history, a bit of mathematics, a good deal of astronomy, some French poets, and Shakespere. [11]
To these bleak lands Italy was a paradise, and was so sung by poets who had no conception of a winter without frost. [4]
We poets, you know, are much given to indulging in sentiment, which is a mode of consciousness at a discount just now with the new generation of analysts who are throwing everything into their crucibles. [6]
There are two kinds of poets, just as there are two kinds of blondes. [6]
Every year they kill a lot of poets for writing about "Beautiful Spring. [5]
Some were from Jupiter and other worlds in our own system, but the most celebrated were three poets, Saa, Bo and Soof, from great planets in three different and very remote systems. [5]
And what an inspiration that was, and how instantly the present toast recalls the verses to all our minds when the most noble, the most gracious, the purest, and sweetest of all poets says: "Woman! [5]
And what an inspiration that was (and how instantly the present toast recalls the verses to all our minds) when the most noble, the most gracious, the purest, and sweetest of all poets says: "Woman! [5]
The instruction given in the school of poets was perfectly abominable, as he heard from Councillor Steuerer, who was faithful to the Catholic Church, and strove to induce the Duke of Bavaria to adopt still sterner measures against all this disorder. [10]
And what are immortal works of the great poets and thinkers but such sacred words of warning addressed, not to a single individual, but to all that are not barbarians, however many they maybe. [10]
Many born poets, I am afraid, flower poorly in song, or not at all, because they have been too often transplanted. [6]
The stanzas reminded him forcibly of one of the greatest poets of the century. [6]
Its song was heard in every house; the poets wrote its praises; the painters painted it; its sculptured image adorned every arch and turret and fountain and public building. [5]
Just so we have the great sun-kindled, constructive imaginations, and a far more numerous class of poets who have a certain kind of moonlight-genius given them to compensate for their imperfection of nature. [6]
All later poets have sung the same song. [4]
Hilarious poets who have never fired a gun write hunting-songs,--Ti-ra-la: and good bishops write war-songs,--Ave the Czar! [4]
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]
The list including Greek, Latin, Italian, and German poets, with American and English, gave an average of a little over sixty-two years. [6]
Emerson's Poems:-- In general: inspiration from nature, 22, 96; poetic rank in college, 45, 46; prose-poetry and philosophy, 91, 93; annual _afflatus_, in America, 136, 137; first volume, 192; five immortal poets, 202; ideas repeated, 239; true position, 311 _et seq. [6]
The Preface is full of interest for its comments on many of the poems and poets appearing in these selections. [6]
They are genuine friends of the Muses--the poets Theocritus and Zenodotus. [10]
Out of this free agitation sprang a literary product, great in quantity and to some degree distinguished in quality, groups of historians, poets, novelists, essayists, biographers, scientific writers. [4]
Greek: Emerson's love for, 43, 44; in Harvard, 49; poets, 253; moralist, 299; Bryant's translation, 378; philosophers, 391. [6]
Nobody was troubled, for he was like most inventors and other kinds of poets, and went and came in a capricious way, and often without notice. [5]
Tennyson is his favorite among poets an affinity explained by the fact that they are both lotos-eaters. [4]
Shall we rank Emerson among the great poets or not? [6]
One of the curious questions which might well be asked by those who had been with us on different occasions would be, "How many poets are there among you? [6]
I have the classics, and the history, and the poets. [9]
The images which certain poets had dreamed of seemed to have become a reality before his own eyes. [6]
If, nevertheless, the capitals are the centers where the poets, artists, sculptors, and architects of the country gather, there is a good reason for it. [10]
Her generous instinct came to the rescue of the poor poets just at the right moment. [6]
I was deceived by one of your Scotch poets. [5]
The great poets build temples of song, and fill them with images and symbols which move us almost to adoration; the lesser minstrels fill a panel or gild a cornice here and there, and make our hearts glad with glimpses of beauty. [6]
Cages of large birds from the Indies, fruits, corn, fishes, grapes, hung in the trees, players perched in the branches discoursed sweet music, and poets recited their verses from rustic bridges or on platforms with weapons and armour hung trophy-wise on ragged staves. [11]
In history, in biography, in science, in the essay, in the novel and story, there are coming forth a hundred expressions of the hundred aspects of American life; and they are also sung by the poets in notes as varied as the migrating birds. [4]
As we have been quoting from the poets this morning, I will follow the precedent, and give some lines from an epistle of Pope to Addison after the latter had written, but not yet published, his Dialogue on Medals. [6]
The Italians, to be sure, know how to make capital out of poets and heroes, and are quick to learn the curiosity of foreigners, and to gratify it for a compensation. [4]
The King of Bavaria is a poet, and has a poet's eccentricities--with the advantage over all other poets of being able to gratify them, no matter what form they may take. [5]
But to come back to poets and artists;--if they really are more prone to the abuse of stimulants,--and I fear that this is true, --the reason of it is only too clear. [6]
I have listened at the university to many a famous interpreter of the Hellenic and Roman poets, and many a great historian, but not one of them ever gave me so distinct an impression of living with the ancients as Heinrich Langethal. [10]
Our poets can at least do this for us by the help of a quasi-international copyright. [4]

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