The story would appear to be the outcome of a moving realisation of all that makes the Highlands what they are to the poetic sense, of which the author of A Princess of Thule was perhaps the best modern interpreter.
He was required to be present at every public function, and, if it presented scope for poetic treatment, to render it into verse.
In this savage and poetic way did the great ruined Chieftain give in his desperate submission, and tradition continues the poetry by insisting that it was at the intercession of Queen Jane that his life was spared.
His candour, his brutal realism, his defiance and scorn for poetic theories, presented to her the sharp contrast which made him doubly fascinating.
We must make the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man our daily life, not merely a poetic theory.
In other words, dialect is the working man's poetic diction--a poetic diction as full of savour as that of the eighteenth-century poets was flat and insipid.
But the highest quality of dialect speech, and that which renders it pre-eminently fitted for poetic use, is its intimate association with all that lies nearest to the heart of the working man.
I do not deny that much maybe done in this way, but let us not forget that something more will be needed than a course of instruction in poetic diction and metrical rhythm.
His very arguments are expressed inpoetic imagery.
Oh for a bard to string his lyre and sing in poetic numbers his praises of the burro's song!
I became convinced in a moment that I had verily "put my foot in it" for the second time, when she told me she meant "poetic feet.
The entertainment for the beast would be a mere poetic license, a sort of wild fancy, and consist of illimitable acres of rocks and pine brush; a picket pin and a lariat, if the beast was to grow gaunt.
This was incomprehensible to me, having as yet no knowledge of the illogical workings of an artistically poetic and musical temperament.
The old hermit and philosopher Muralto would here remark, that the young poetic lover Muralto was a long distance from the sage.
The impression of the poetic mind found its expression in art, and now the statues think, fear, hate, love.
The story suggests aspiring and poetic love, a life spent more in dreams than in reality, and an early and welcome death.
At the head of these authors must indisputably be named Fernando de Herrera, a man to whom poetic elocution owes more than to any other.
From no one can such beautiful isolated verses be quoted as from him; from no one, poetic periods so stately and so strong.
What person, possessing the least taste in poetic language and versification, can read two pages of these versions, wherein the greatest poets of antiquity are metamorphosed into trivial rhymers, without elegance and harmony?
The writer is not however so wanting in talent, as not to manifest from time to time some poetic design, now in invention, now in sentiment, and now in expression.
Although suffering intense physical torture during the greater portion of the trip, it did not extinguish in him the truly poetic ardor with which those strange phenomena seem to have inspired him.
It needed but the presence of Hecate and her weird band to realize that horrible creation of poetic fancy, and I fancied the "black and midnight hags" concocting a charm around this horrible cauldron.
It pleased and soothed her to work out a poetic problem—to imagine herself appealing to some foolish heartless swain blind to her love and deaf to her appeal—and to feel her way as she developed the character and mind of the lovelorn lady.
The truth is, her poetic emotion and the imagination which so stirred the admiration of Ruskin and the rest, inspired her to express a somewhat fanciful vision of the flowers, and children, and life which she saw around her.
Competent critics, as we have seen, expressed the opinion that there was poeticfancy and feeling in many of these early attempts.
The plain of Argos has been immortalized bypoetic genius as the great gathering-place of the kings and armies that assembled for the siege of Troy.
Never, perhaps, was the influence of woman on a poetic temperament more beautifully illustrated, than in the story of James the First of Scotland, and Lady Jane Beaufort.
It is not distinguished for poetic power, but has at least the charm of perfect frankness and simplicity, and a kind of abandon that is quite bewitching.
He has left us a most circumstantial and elegant as well as interesting and fanciful account of the birth and progress of his poetic passion, and I extract it at length from Mr. Roscoe's translation.
And, strange to relate, we are indebted for what we have to the quotations of grammarians and lexicographers, who preserved the verses, not usually for their poetic beauty, but to illustrate a point in syntax or metre.
Archilochus has left us an exquisite picture of his loved one, clad in all the beauty and grace a poetic lover could portray, with a rose and a myrtle branch in her hand, and her tresses falling caressingly over her shoulders.
The younger woman, who defeated Pindar five times in poetic contests, gave her rival some good advice, by which he profited in his later productions.
She later entered the lists in a poetic contest with Pindar, and for this she was censured by Corinna.
Though merely a poet's fancy, Nausicaa is absolutely human and full of life, and thus differs from the heroine of The Tempest, who of all poetic creations most resembles her.
Of all the creations of poetic fancy, none equals her in perennial charm.
This afforded Elder Taylor a fine opportunity for one of those poetic flights so frequently to be met with both in his writings and sermons.
This is a poetic usage, though not confined to verse.
Of the same grandeur, in less heroic and poetic form, was the patriotism of Peel in recent history.
Lavinia, hear me,’ replied the hero, in his most poetic strain.
It is the richest in texture and certainly the most poetic and emotional of the four.
If he was not an exalted creature, full of poetic aspirations and noble fancies, he must be a profligate young idler, ready to whisper any falsehood into the ears of foolish rustic womanhood.
If he was not the one grand thing which she had believed him to be--a poetic and honourable adorer--he was in nothing the hero of her dreams.
Poor weak sentimental Mary of Scotland accepts Chastelar's poetic homage, and is pleased to think that the poet's heart is breaking because of her grace and loveliness, and would like it to go on breaking for ever.
He was as far away from her life now as those fascinating figments of the poetic brain, Messrs.
There was not so much in George Gilbert, according to any poetic or sentimental standard; but there was a great deal in him, when you came to measure him by the far nobler standard of duty.
The tender sentimental raptures, the poetic emotions, the dim aspirations, which Isabel revealed to Roland, would have been as unintelligible as the Semitic languages to George.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poetic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
