One of Anacreon's odes relates how the poet was awakened on a rainy midnight by the cry of a child begging shelter.
My name it is Green, as the poet observes; but you don't see much of it in my eye.
Mr. Windsor; "and now by repulse of the Rads, you have gained three hundred hats, the poet says.
The Revolution has never had that long hold on the national imagination in England, either as an idol or a bugbear, which is essential to keep the poet who sings it in effective harmony with new generations of readers.
To be most deeply penetrated with the differentiating quality of the poet is not, after all, to contain the whole of that admixture of varying and moderating elements which goes to the composition of the broadest and most effective work.
Subtlety may miss them, graces may miss them, and reason may fly over their heads, but the words of a generous humanity on the lips of poet or chief have never failed to kindle divine music in their breasts.
The life of the poet may help to explain the growth and prominence of a characteristic sentiment or peculiar idea.
We feel that Shelley transports the spirit to the highest bound and limit of the intelligible; and that with him thought passes through one superadded and more rarefying process than the other poet is master of.
It is one of the singular facts in the history of literature, that the most rootedly conservative country in Europe should have produced the poet of the Revolution.
The poet or the tragedian in the black frock-coat buttoned up to hide the absence of the shirt, is not half so funny to himself as to us.
The poet says: “The crown of olive let another wear; It is my crown to mock the runner’s feet With gentle wonder and with laughter sweet.
The poetry of the Senses lifts a mortal to the skies, thinking the thought of one higher than itself as the poet muses, singing the songs of an angelic choir in harmony with the rhythm of the verse.
Poetry speaks also the mood, the aspiration, and the deepest intent of its author; so that the great poet is the one who brings us most directly to understand its art.
Let the student work out the metre, the typical line, and the variations by which the poet gets his effects, the metaphors, the alliterations, the consonant and vowel harmonies.
In the class the large divisions of the poem should be sympathetically shown, so that each student will comprehend the poem as a whole as the poet must have conceived it.
If we are studying the "Idylls of the King," for instance, we may fitly ask what was the story as the poet took it, and into what has he transformed it for us.
I don't, and I am sure the poet didn't when he sang the lines at the head of this chapter.
And Infantdom has--But our poet beautifully illustrates this in the stanzas we have quoted.
So first my grief and loneliness recalled the lines of the poet whose music I had used to Jim's advantage, and then followed the matters attached to the same chain of thought.
The poet Virgil became the prince of necromancers.
This is Nausicaa as Homer draws her; and as many a scholar and poet since Homer has accepted her for the ideal of noble maidenhood.
As an amatory poet he is the poet of pleasure and intrigue rather than of tender sentiment or absorbing passion.
In the former he imitates the Greek poet Archilochus, but takes his subjects from the men, women and incidents of the day.
Alexandria and the court poetof the emperor Honorius and his minister Stilicho.
In the Aeneid he is the idealizing poet of national glory, as manifested in the person of Augustus.
To do justice to his idea Virgil enters into rivalry with a greater poet than those whom he had equalled or surpassed in his previous works.
Virgil is the true representative poet of Rome and Italy, of national glory and of the beauty of nature, the artist in whom all the efforts of the past were made perfect, and the unapproachable standard of excellence to future times.
He has the interest of being the last poet of the free republic.
As the poet of love he gives utterance to the pensive melancholy rather than to the pleasures associated with it.
In the Eclogues and Georgics Virgil is the idealizing poet of the old simple and hardy life of Italy, as the imagination could conceive of it in an altered world.
Hardly a mile west was Rudiae, the birthplace of the poet Ennius, spoken of by Silius Italicus as worthy of mention for that reason alone.
The Italian poet Torquato Tasso has an able work not wholly disconnected with the interesting subject of the Crusades as these expeditions were termed.
One Master Thomas Doit, a law student, of Staffordshire, stepped forward, and in respectful tones begged the poet to favour him with a hearing of his verses.
The waterman was vanquished, and the poet resumed his swaggering antics with renewed extravagance.
It is curious to note one of the legendary explanations of the division of blood as given by Alexander Barclay, a poet of the reign of Henry VII.
The absurdity which he suggests was aptly expressed by a poet of the reign of Charles II.
Whether the poet or the moralist pointed their shafts against them, the dames and the dandies of the time continued to dress as pleased them.
Were not all the high-flown democratic opinions which he was constantly expressing nothing but the love of a poet for nature, and the base multitude whom he idealised as the children of nature?
He grappled the situation with all the fanatical ardour of which a poet alone is capable; but from Penelophon he could get no response.
Footnote 39: Marcus Manilius, a poet of the Augustan age, wrote the poem on astronomy, to which Dryden refers.
We love variety more than any other nation; and so long as the audience will not be pleased without it, the poet is obliged to humour them.
Footnote 21: In this Ode is contained all the use which our poet made of his knowledge of the Saxon manners, gleaned from Bede and Bochart.
The aged poet himself furnished a Prologue and Epilogue, a Song, and Secular Masque; and, with these additions, the piece was performed for the benefit of Dryden.
The ancient Leonidas, as story saith, being asked, What manner of poet he thought Tyrtæus?
The rabble-scene, introduced, as the poet himself tells us, to gratify the more barbarous part of his audience, is indeed deplorably bad.
Well, for daubing and wheedling, I'll let thee loose to any poetin Christendom.
Footnote 25: With a slight alteration in spelling, a modern poet would have written Bond-Street beaux.
This is the disadvantage of which the poet had already complained: How can he show his manhood, when you bind him To box, like boys, with one hand tied behind him?
The allusion seems to be the same as if a modern poet had said, that a feeble player at billiards runs no risk of pocketing his own ball.
She not only had a knowledge of letters rare for her age, but wrote poems of such merit that they were until recently accepted as the productions of her master, the poet Fortunatus,[30] who subsequently became bishop of Poitiers.
Among them were Clement Marot, the first poet of modern France, and Ariosto, the immortal author of Orlando Furioso.
Far from having a preeminent master of song like Homer or Dante, we have not even a poet approaching Goethe or Tasso or Camoens.
Celebrated, however, as Hilda was for her great educational work at Whitby, she is probably better known to the world as the one who first recognized and fostered the rare gifts of the poet Caedmon.
Claviere declares that "There is hardly a philosopher or a poet of the sixteenth century whose pages are not illuminated or gladdened by the smile of some high-born lady.
Only, of course, in order to comprehend the accuracy of this definition, one must renounce the ancient prejudice that a poet must invent something which does not exist, that imagination and invention are identical.
But far more eminent as a poet was the noble and accomplished Marchesa of Pescara, Vittoria Colonna, who, on account of her talents and virtues, was named La Divina.
It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look.
Planchette was a tall, thin man, and a sort ofpoet always in deep contemplation.
Her association with Nathan subserved, moreover, their mutual interests; the poet won respect for the actress, who knew moreover how to make herself formidable by her spirit of intrigue and the tartness of her sallies of wit.
And yet what poet would change conditions with the lark?
Zola was none the less, but all the more, a poet in this.
He who can see nothing in the latter's fables beyond the little dramas which they unfold and the ordinary moral which the poet draws therefrom, must confess that he fails to understand him.
A poet of the sea had been born, and his genius still bears a trace of the shudder of fear experienced that evening by Pierre Loti the little child.
And he turned his snapping brown eyes in the direction of the gentle poet and the venerable philosopher.
At the lower end of the board sat a young poet who was riding on his first wave of popularity; and next to him was a philosopher.
The poet was reciting some of his own verses to the countess, while the philosopher was asleep in an arm-chair.
The ladies looked pale and were glad to quit the table for the salon, where they were joined by the poet and the philosopher, leaving the others still at their wine.
The chevalier took a pinch of snuff and settled himself back in the arm-chair which was accorded to him as a tribute to his advanced age; and the poet unfolded his manuscript and began to read.
As the young poet ended he folded up his manuscript and bowed his blushing acknowledgments to the storm of applause that greeted him.
Sybil is the most prosaic poet I know,' said Charlie.
In a little while our lips are dumb," as some depressing poet says.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
