It is my intention to wait a few years before I publish any minor poems--and then I hope to have a volume of some worth--and which those people will relish who cannot bear the burthen of a long poem.
I have heard Hunt say, and I may be asked--why endeavour after a long Poem?
Besides, a long poem is a test of invention, which I take to be the Polar star of Poetry, as Fancy is the Sails--and Imagination the rudder.
Longwin, the publishers, agreed to give him £3,000 for a long poem on an oriental subject.
There is some fancy but no imagination in the machinery of Tickell's long poem on Kensington Gardens, a title which recalls Matthew Arnold's exquisite stanzas.
A long poem called The Northern Star, a panegyric on Peter the Great, is said to have passed through several editions.
The ambitious plan of a long poem of medieval France, "The Jacquerie," he kept in his desk, a beautiful dream that often he returned to.
Gascoyne’s long poem, called The Fruits of War, is in the doggrel style of his age; and the general commendations of Chalmers on this poet seem rather hyperbolical.
At thirteen I wrote a long poem à la "Lady of the Lake"--1300 lines in six days.
A long poem,' he says, with more truth than most people are quite willing to see, 'is a paradox.
Arthur Hallam, a gifted son of the distinguished historian, who was betrothed to Tennyson's sister, died young; and the poet has mourned and eulogized him in a long poem entitled In Memoriam.
It is a long poem in two parts: the one descriptive of Madoc in Wales and the other of Madoc in Aztlan.
There is indeed a certain one-sidedness about it, and a devil's advocate might urge that a long poemcouched in verse (let alone the subject) of such unbroken gloom would be intolerable.
But Sackville did not write a long poem, and his complete command within his limits of the effect at which he evidently aimed is most remarkable.
I answered, that I thought the passion of love as well suited to the purposes of poetry as any other passion; but that it was a cheap way of pleasing to fix the attention of the reader through a long poem on the mere appetite.
A portion of a long poem[69] from me will see the light ere long; I hope it will give you pleasure.
The lines of Lucretius describing the immolation of Iphigenia are worth the whole of Goethe's long poem.
Childe Harold is a long poem of four cantos, but now only two cantos were published.
It is a long poem in blank verse, much of it will seem dull to you, and you will find it hard to be interested in Adam and Eve.
In 1155 Geoffrey died, and that year a Frenchman, or Jerseyman rather, named Robert Wace, finished a long poem which he called Li Romans de Brut or the Romances of Brutus.
The Excursion, though a long poem, is only part of what Wordsworth meant to write.
For a single thought and mood, expressive of one aspect of things, suffices, with its melody, for a lyric, but not for a long poem.
Wordsworth, now about thirty, and the author of many characteristic lyrics, on returning from Germany and settling at Grasmere, begins to meditate a long poem.
A long poem, as we have seen, requires imaginative powers superfluous in a short one; and it would be easy to show that it admits of strictly poetic effects of the highest value which the mere brevity of a short one excludes.
It is a long poem, in rimed couplets, giving a survey and criticism of the social life of various countries in Europe, and reflects many of Goldsmith's own wanderings and impressions.
She also urged him to write a long poem in blank verse; and when he demanded a subject, she whimsically suggested the sofa, which was a new article of furniture at that time.
Montanhagol, although greatly intimidated by the Inquisition, wrote a long poem on the subject, and the otherwise unknown Bernard Sicard de Marvajols laments: Oh!
This translation is only a portion of a long poem.
These four stanzas are but a section of a long poem.
But during this period a long poem, The Ring and the Book, had been maturing.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "long poem" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
