I take from an old volume of the Christian Spectator one of these poemsas a literary curiosity.
There was a religious streak in this jolly partisan, and he published several poems that breathed the sweetest and loftiest religious sentiment.
Fragments of his poems have been recovered by the industry and sagacity of Niebuhr.
Note: Compare the curious Latin poems on the destruction of Aquileia, published by M.
We should vainly seek, in the poems of Claudian, the happy invention, and artificial conduct, of an interesting fable; or the just and lively representation of the characters and situations of real life.
Shakspeare had never read the poems of Gregory Nazianzen; he was ignorant of the Greek language; but his mother tongue, the language of Nature, is the same in Cappadocia and in Britain.
Mr. Parratt, the author of some poems in Dodsley's collection.
His otherpoems are but briefs in rhyme, and, like the poor Greek's collections, to redeem from captivity.
Prize poems ever yielded the novelist a delightful field for his sarcasms.
I recollect with pleasure that as we were conversing over a bowl of punch, after Mrs. Jefferson had retired, our conversation turned on the poems of Ossian.
The heart warms to this youth with his dreams and aspirations, brain teeming with poems years before he learned to write.
They do not know even the names of some of the finest poems our age has produced.
Next day a bundle of his poems arrived, and with them a note in these words: ‘Here are copies of verses you said you liked.
And another woman he had asked for a drink had not given him new milk but sour; and sometimes the girls would be whispering and laughing with young ignorant men while he himself was in the middle of giving out his poems or his talk.
The poems were all endeavours to capture some high, impalpable mood in a net of obscure images.
In the treatise De Vulgari Eloquio Dante refers to him as one of "those who have most sweetly and subtly written poems in modern Italian," but his works, printed at Rome in 1559, do not altogether justify the praise.
In Birt's edition a complete chronological list of Claudian's poems is given, and also in J.
His poems have small literary merit, and are written, not in pure Lowland Scots, but in English with a large admixture of Scottish words.
This piece proved the precursor of the series of panegyrical poems which compose the bulk of his writings.
He wrote A Collection of several Poems and Verses composed upon various occasions (published posthumously, 1697).
Letters were modelled on those of the younger Pliny, while his poems give proof of a wide though superficial acquaintance with classical literature.
He befriended the author and introduced his poems to the notice of John Taylor, of the publishing firm of Taylor & Hussey, who issued the Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery in 1820.
The magazine is now of value to collectors because it contains the earliest printed poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson, who was Clarke's personal friend.
I have observed," said I frankly, "that the people who own nothing write many poems about it.
Serious, indeed, his poems might well be, for they were all composed during the intervals of thirteen bodily rackings in a gloomy prison that opened only upon the scaffold.
One of his short youthful poemswhich survived him was on the spread of sceptical philosophy and the decay of virtue.
His poems were the first heralds, the joy-bells, of a new school; his name was a talisman.
To the readers of poetry for its merely sensuous qualities of flowing measure, attractive imagery, and brilliant description, the poems of Southwell possess but few attractions.
How in earlier times he was rated, the fact that there were twenty-four editions of his poems will sufficiently testify; though probably the creed be professed, and the death which he died, may have had something to do with this.
We would then have had more poems like the magnificent Fourth Canto of Childe Harold, and no poem like the voluptuous Don Juan.
Lowell to give a few hours behind his ‘Study Windows’ to a reperusal of some of the poems of Southwell named by us and these sufficiently qualified critics.
The fragments which still remain in Wales of the poems of this bard are either very much modernized or almost wholly transformed.
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.
One of the most exquisite of Mrs. Browning's poems is The Lost Bower; it is endeared to me because it expresses so fully a childish bereavement of my own, for I have a lost garden.
Having been informed of Tennyson's dislike of white flowers, I have amused myself by trying to discover in his poems evidence of such aversion.
The Administration might have gone to these poems for a policy: he had fought the battle before them.
This, with the devout depth of his nature, makes the rare beauty of his hymns and poems of piety and trust.
And yet we have in vain searched these poems to find one trace of base wrath, or of any degenerate and selfish passion.
The man who writes poems may have aims which underlie and suffuse his work; but they must not be partial, they must be coextensive with the whole spirit of man, and must enter his work as the air enters his nostrils.
These are less to be named poems than pieces of rhythmic oratory,--oratory crystallized into poetic form, and carrying that deeper significance and force which from all vitalized form are inseparable.
And the other poems of this first great epoch in his poetical life, though always powerful, often beautiful, yet never, we think, show a perfect resting upon his own poetic heart.
From the poems "Over the Hill to the Poorhouse" and "Over the Hill from the Poorhouse" by Will Carleton.
Adapted from the poems "Over the Hill to the Poorhouse" and "Over the Hill From the Poorhouse" by Will Carleton.
Scarcely has any modern book of poems shown so sure a touch of genius in this respect: the magic, in a continuous glow saturating the substance of every picture and motive with its own peculiar essence.
All this quite points to, and partly explains, the charm of the poems in A Shropshire Lad .
Whatever that secret is, the charm of it never fails after all these years to keep the poems preserved with a freshness and vitality, which are the qualities of enduring genius.
Poems of English Heroism: From Brunanburh to Lucknow; from Athelstan to Albert.
Clarke From the edition of Browning's poemspublished by Thomas Y.
One of the Sibylline[6] poems seems to proceed from this school.
Cloth, 12mo Here with that intensely human note exhibited in his poems of the working classes, Mr. Gibson sings of the life of the soldier.
Under a dragon lamp with a shade the color of coral Sit the readers of poems one by one.
He hated to die being but thirty-three, And fearing that his poems might be lost.
In addition to thesepoems of battle there are others in the collection on varying themes.
Especially meritorious are his poemsabout the slave trade and his apostrophes to Liberty.
The third, Rafael Maria de Mendive, devoted himself almost exclusively to poems of melancholy or at least pensive sentiment.
In the United States, where because of his exile from Cuba his poems were first printed, he is chiefly known by three great compositions, two of which were translated into English by William Cullen Bryant.
In addition to her poems she wrote "Angelica and Estrella" and other novels, and translated much from the French and Italian.
Ramon Zambrana, a physician and scientist of high attainments, whose poems were chiefly metaphysical, speculative and imaginative.
A noteworthy volume of poems by four authors was published in 1853 under the title of "Cuatro Laudes.
There she wrote poems and dramas which placed her in the foremost rank of the world's literary artists; her poetical drama of "Baltasar" in 1853 being one of the greatest triumphs of that generation.
She wrote much in youth, and published a volume of poems in 1856.
The second of the four authors was Jose Gonzalo Roldan, whose best work was in poems of tender sentiment.
But he was found guilty, and was put to death; repeating aloud, as he walked to the place of execution, one of his poems on liberty.
Heredia, who has been called the Byron of Spanish literature, and who is claimed by Spain as one of the glories of her letters, is known in Cuba largely by his patriotic poems, and his poems on nature.
There is however in his poems an exquisite finish surpassed by no other Cuban writer, while many of them reach a height of inspiration which few others have equalled.
The fourth of the four poets of "Cuatro Laudes" was Felipe Lopez de Brinas, who drew his best themes from nature, and who addressed his best poems to his wife.
Many of hispoems were patriotic appeals disguised in classic forms.
The poems on this ideal love legend are of infinite variety.
Taylor's collection of "Poems at Home and Abroad," dedicated to Boker in 1855, suggests that the two must have continually talked over the possibilities of gathering their best effusions in book form.
This splendid fiction, or, more properly speaking, gross falsehood, was seized upon by poets and painters of every grade of genius; poems and pictures on it appearing in great abundance.
The change is already apparent in the poems of Lewis Glyn Cothi and others.
Gower's Confessio Amantis (1483), and many poems of Lydgate.
Among his love-poems the "Shieling Song" is deservedly famous.
He was given the rank of captain, but rendered greater services to the Jacobite cause with his stirring poems than with the sword.
Spurious poems dealing with such personages as Nominoe and Merlin.
The earliest and best-known of these religiouspoems are the Hymn of Secundinus (Sechnall d.
Cameron's Reliquiae Celticae, and many of the poems are to be found in standard orthography in G.
Strachan had begun to tap the mine of the Old Welsh poems when his career was cut short by death.
O'Daly, has left behind in addition to the religious verses a considerable number of poems in praise of various patrons in Ireland and Scotland.
In addition to the text, translations of the poems were furnished by Dr Silvan Evans and the Rev.
The poemsincluded in his collection may be divided into three classes: (1) Poems rearranged by himself or others.
Four Masters the Virgil of Ireland, eight of whose poems have survived, containing in all about 1000 lines.
The metres employed in the poems show the influence of the English system of versification.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poems" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
