The writer of this poem refers to certain signs showing that Heaven itself is indignant at Yu-wang's crimes.
His campaigns furnished him with themes for his verses, and in the Summer Palace was found a handsome manuscript copy of a laudatory poem he composed on the occasion of his war against the Gurkhas.
You may become a master of requests with money; but you can't make a poem with money, and I made one.
Before Longfellow had immortalized, in the poem of Evangeline, the peaceful habits and the misfortunes of the Acadians, Raynal had already pleaded their cause before history.
A young poet named Lesbroussart won the prize in a fine poem full of the old national spirit of the race.
Almost the happiest of such moments were those lulled by the sleepy music of 'The Castle of Indolence,' a poemnow perhaps seldom read, at least by the young.
Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice.
As a specimen of French criminal literature I will give a poem by Lebiez, the young murderer spoken of in Chapter I.
A criminal has been known to declaim from the scaffold a poem on his own death; another asked and obtained permission to present his defence in verse.
A religious poemif it is to be deeply felt must embody a living faith.
In accordance with the god's decree, no statue was erected, no poem was composed, and no entry was made in the city records.
The rest of his poem is a picturesque drama, in which every artifice of invention is visibly and consciously employed; not a single fact being for an instant conceived as tenable by any living faith" (Sesame and Lilies, section iii.
A statue must not be erected to his memory; no poem must be composed for him; his name must not appear in the city's records.
It used to be a favourite of my boyhood, and once I composed a poem while lying in its shade.
Here is the only stanza I can remember of the little poem I composed to express the "unmannerly sadness" of youth.
I ventured to suggest that it might be better to give up the stanza than have the poem marred by a defect so conspicuous.
He explained his own idea to be that any action served to attract the attention of the audience from the poem to the speaker, thus detracting from the effect of the former.
Indeed, with such an arrangement, and the lamp supposed to be suspended from the hall ceiling, as in those old mansions, there would be no difficulty with either the poem or the picture.
The beauty of Nyssia, thanks to the veils which shrouded her, became a sort of myth, a canvas, a poem to which each one added ornamentation as the fancy took him.
The substance of the poem is briefly summed up by Macaulay as follows:— “No philosophical poem, ancient or modern, has a plan so noble and at the same time so simple.
From the poemas here given, The Prologue, L’Envoi and The Epilogue are omitted.
Before beginning the study of the poem read the introductory note to Morte D’Arthur.
The poem here given includes only the part of Enid which is now known as The Marriage of Geraint.
Enoch Arden was “a rough sailor lad” without education; and Tennyson throughout the poem tries to soften down the prosaic features of his life and to picture him as a man with nobler impulses and resolves.
Byron wrote this poem in 1816, a few days after visiting Chillon.
The poem suggests that Cæsar was in love with Flur, the betrothed bride of Cassivelaun.
The churchyard referred to in the poem is that of Stoke Pogis in Buckinghamshire, where Gray’s mother lived during the latter part of her life.
The poem expresses Browning’s feelings as he calls to memory the great victories of England that are connected with these historic scenes.
An Elegy is a poemor song expressing the writer’s feelings of sorrow or mourning.
It was a poem which abounded in dashing exaggerations, and fair imitations of the styles of the then greater English poets.
There was a dramatic vein about it, however, or the player would not have advised the bard to convert his poem into a play.
To a foolish report that this effort had been successful Beza himself answered in a satirical poem full of all his youthful fire.
He wrote an allegorical poem Anticlaudianus, which describes how reason and faith in union with all the virtues restore human nature to perfection.
The land of heroes; the name of the epic poem of Finland.
Fragments of several editions of the poem have been found, not only among the ruins of Nineveh, but also in Babylonia; and by fitting these together it has been possible to recover almost the whole of the original text.
The story of the Deluge formed the subject of more than one poem among the Accadians.
After many short speeches and a pretty poem recited by Miss Schafer, the meeting came to an end, and all the participants returned home thinking how to help the spread of Esperanto in England, and throughout the world.
But, at the same time, this poem contains very touching and beautiful lines.
There is always its unalterable verbal neatness; tradition, too, lingers more lovingly around fair shapes, and a poem is a better instance of form than a paragraph.
The words blood and bloody punctuate the largest poem of G.
The wilting sarcasm of this poem is a feature which puts it with a few others apart from the bulk of Chesterton's poems.
His first book of verses--after Greybeards at Play--The Wild Knight contained a bloodthirstypoem about the Battle of Gibeon, written with strict adhesion to the spirit of the Old Testament.
As I gazed on the mighty tree I thought of the Ash Yggdrasill mentioned in the Voluspa, or prophecy of Vola, that venerable poem which contains so much relating to the mythology of the ancient Norse.
The mishaps of the first voyage and the wreck at Bermuda were celebrated in a little poem by R.
The whole poem has been reprinted by the Percy Society.
About this time he competed for a prize, writing a poem on the king's generosity in building the new choir in the cathedral Notre Dame.
Spenser, therefore, was not exaggerating, or using the language of flattery towards a few elegies or a group of sonnets, when he spoke of Cynthia as a poem of great importance.
This poem was, until quite lately, supposed to have vanished entirely and beyond all hope of recovery.
Among the many allusions found to this book in contemporary records, perhaps the most curious is an epic poem on Guiana, published almost immediately by George Chapman, who gave his enthusiastic approval to Raleigh's scheme.
It is the misfortune of Chapman's style that in his grotesque arrogance he disdained to be lucid, and this poem is full of tantalising hints, which the biographer of Raleigh longs to use, but dares not, from their obscurity.
As a matter of fact, no poem of the like ambition had been written in England for a century past, and if it had been published, it would perhaps have taken a place only second to its immediate contemporary, The Faery Queen.
Another note, in Raleigh's handwriting, styles the poem The Ocean's Love to Cynthia, and this was probably the full name of it.
This is most valuable evidence of the existence in 1589 of a poem or series of poems by Sir Walter Raleigh, set by Spenser on a level with the best work of the age in verse.
But if the poemgoes in, I shall ask you to accept my resignation.
Peggy, do you realize what it would have meant if we had let that poem of Ida's go in?
It is not known why Chretien dropped the poem where he did.
Further light may be thrown on the passage in our text by the English poem "The Cokwold's Daunce" (in C.
The relation of the Welsh prose to the French poem is a moot point.
The poem is an episodical romance in the biography of an Arthurinn hero, with the usual amount of space given to his adventures.
Footnote 420: The hero of the poem is here first mentioned by name.
Footnote 322: This is the first of three references in this poem to the abduction of Guinevere as fully narrated in the poem of "Lancelot".
It is true the romance of "Lancelot" was not completed by Chretien, we are told, but the poem is his in such large part that one would be over-scrupulous not to call it his.
Footnote 425: According to the statement made at the end of the poem by the continuator of Chretien, Godefroi de Leigni, it must have been at about this point that the continuator took up the thread of the story.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poem" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
