Byron's Murray ceased to publish poetry in 1830, just when Tennyson and Browning were striking their preludes.
At seven he composed an essay, "On the Uncertainty of Human Life," but "his taste for poetry was not discovered till a later period.
Perhaps this, for its compass, is the collection of poetry the most various and rich of modern English times, almost of any English times.
Modern poets whom one meets are apt to say that poetry is not read at all.
No incident is more frequently celebrated in poetry and art, to which it lends such gracious opportunities.
No doubt it was not a manner to persevere in, but happily, in a mood and a moment never to be re-born or return, Mr. Morris did fill a fresh page in English poetry with these imperishable fantasies.
The young Stoddart's two desires were poetry and fishing.
But before he quite abandoned all poetry save fishing ditties, he wrote and published the volume whose title-page we have printed, "The Death Wake.
Every student of poetry may make the comparison for himself, and decide for himself whether the old or the new is better.
But the true test is in the appreciation of the lovers of poetry in general.
There does seem to be something in French poetry which fails to please "the German paste in our composition.
Driven to desperation, the Emperor changed the whole basis of the Remuneration of Literary Labour, and ordered that it should be by the length of the prose or poetry measured in inches.
Two centuries later great Roman poetry was being written: a major poet was on the scenes, --Virgil.
Patrick's coming led eventually to the period of the Irish illumination; the coming of Theosophy led in a very few years to the greatest Irish illumination, in poetry and drama especially, that had been since Ireland fell.
His valor in four battles had set him among the national heroes; he had been, in The Persians, the laureate of Salamis; by the sheer grandeur of his poetry he had won the prize thirteen times in succession.
It is an instinct for this truth that makes Chinese poetry the marvel that it is.
But perhaps poetry and romance are after all the truest and final form of history.
Had they been literary men, their favorite poetrywould have been the sacking of Troy town.
His fondness for poetry in the minor key has become a byword, especially the line "Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud.
Besides his favorite Shakespeare, he had a fondness for poetry of a very different sort--Byron, for example.
It was the poetry of living she thirsted for--poetry in aesthetic proportions, with a careful adjustment of light and shade.
If history assigns a cause inadequate to its effect, or an effect inadequate to its cause, poetry may supply the deficiency for the sake of an impressive whole.
He once asked of an accomplished woman possessing a scholar's breadth of reading, whatpoetry she most lived with.
Without a division, they determined that English poetry is of a higher order than Greek.
I heard but few of his opinions; but these are some He was charmed with Trench's poems; liked Alford; thought Shelley had the greatest native powers in poetry of all the men of this age.
They wrotepoetry and cultivated oratory, and paid much attention to rhetoric.
The name of Roxelana became famous in the drama and poetry of Europe.
Tis the charm of practical men, that outside of their practicality are a certain poetry and play, as if they led the good horse Power by the bridle, and preferred to walk, though they can ride so fiercely.
The early German architecture in the actual realms of Germany is as romantic, energetic, and edifying as its poetry at the same epoch.
At the same time, it is certain that the whole composition shows much poetry of invention and delicacy of finish.
You see, Rumple, that is my brother, always does take himself and his poetryso seriously; but the worst of it is that everyone who hears him recite his own things fancies it is the latest idea in comedy, and they laugh accordingly.
But I am afraid that the process will be rather delayed if it has to wait until your poetry brings the money for doing it, for everyone says that there is no money in poetry.
I shall not go in for pathetic poetry with an audience who cannot appreciate fine shades of feeling," he said in a disgusted fashion.
I am sure he is wrong if our contention be right, that the English Bible should be studied by us all for its poetry and its wonderful language as well as for its religion--the religion and the poetry being in fact inseparable.
Epic poetry and Tragedy, Comedy also and dithyrambic poetry, and the greater part of the music of the flute and of the lyre, are all, in general, modes of imitation.
When the children have done reading he should invite questions on any point they have found puzzling: it is with the operation ofpoetry on their minds that his main business lies.
For indeed the true Greek mind had no thought to separate poetry from religion, as to the true Greek mind reverence and liberty to enjoy, with the liberty of mind that helps to enjoy, were all tributes to the same divine thing.
I should print the prose continuously, as prose is ordinarily and properly printed: and the poetry in verse lines, as poetry is ordinarily and properly printed.
It suffices our present purpose to consider Poetry as the sort of thing the poets write.
Homer's poetry is blazing so full upon the people and things of the "Iliad," that soon to the eyes of the child they grow familiar as his mother's shawl.
As the latter was returning home he met a friend to whom he mentioned the circumstance, and who, apparently judging of poetry by quantity rather than quality, observed that it was a great sum for so small a poem.
Diderot, who liked the English, and knew something of their literary pretensions, attempted to vindicate their poetry and learning, but with unequal abilities.
Poetry is a much easier and more agreeable species of composition than prose; and could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
A conversation took place at table between Goldsmith and Mr. Robert Dodsley, compiler of the well-known collection of modern poetry, as to the merits of the current poetry of the day.
Every step towards home translated the poetry which had come into his life to poetic prose.
She had never in her life had the slightest idea of the enormous sums which authors are paid nowadays; she was like Racine's wife, who did not know what a line of poetry or a tragedy was, although she kept house upon them.
They are the very essence of poetry--poetry at its purest.
I've never read any poetry in my life," said Edward Henry, like a desperate criminal.
It was in part the deep obscurity of the auditorium, in part his own physical fatigue, and in part the secret nature of poetry that had been responsible for this restful slumber.
And still further that his selection of such a play, which combined in the highest degree the poetry of Mr. W.
No modern poetry play ever did run as long in London, and no other ever will.
The sound of a line or verse in poetry is bound to be such as would thrill the physical ear in hearing, or the mental ear in reading, with a delightful excitement even though the meaning went for nothing.
Their poetry has well-defined metres, and a sort of rhyme.
The whole field of thought, of propositions, arguments, injunctions and exhortations is open to poetry but closed to sculpture and painting.
In strictness, the business of poetry should not be called imitation at all, but rather evocation.
Originally poetry and music, the two great speaking arts, were not separated from each other and from the art of bodily motion, dancing.
As an imitative or, more properly speaking, an evocative art, then, poetry is subject to no limitations except those which spring from the poverty of human language, and from the fact that its means of imitation are indirect.
Occasionally also, or in the case of opera throughout, dramatic poetry heightens the emotional effect of its words with music.
It was the beginning of a revolution, which Ferreira completed by abandoning the hendecasyllable for the Italian decasyllable, and by composing the noble and austere Roman poetry of his letters, odes and elegies.
This blossoming age of poetry and the drama came after the desperate struggles of the Persian War, which had left Athens a heap of ruins.
A new school of poetry also arose, most of its followers being mechanical versifiers, though the idyllic poets of Sicily sought these favoring halls.
These superstitions have already survived their best and most useful purpose, having been embalmed in the poetry of Milton and of Shakespeare, as well as writers only inferior to these great names.
Of these early times we can know little; but it is singular to remark what light the traditions of Scotland throw upon the poetry of the Britons of Cumberland, then called Reged.
As these witches were the countrywomen of the weird sisters in Macbeth, the reader may be desirous to hear some of their spells, and of the poetry by which they were accompanied and enforced.
Schiller, great in poetry as in prose, says: 'The larger portion of humanity are too much concerned with the struggle for bare existence to occupy themselves with the search after truth.
Vienne was reputed a fosterer of poetry in classic times.
Without doubt this sequestered life of shepherd and mountain has its vein of poetry and romance as well as any other.
It carries me back to her Plague-Spot and Poetry days, and I just dread those: "Into mortal mind's material obliquity I gazed and stood abashed.
Of the existence of a lyric poetry we only know by hearsay; and the drama had nowhere in Europe yet emerged from its earliest purely liturgic condition.
The most conspicuous changes which came over the narrative poetry of the 13th century were, on the one hand, a steady encroachment of realism on the matter and treatment of the epic, and, on the other, a leaning to didacticism.
As the cultivators of the bombastic and Euphuistic style of the Italians Guarini and Marini, and of the Spanish writer Gongora, Lohenstein and Hofmannswaldau touched the lowest point to which German poetry ever sank.
With Goethe's death a great age in German poetry came to a close.
His vocation to poetry is clearly stamped on his productions.
Combining great spontaneity of feeling, with careful and elaborate composition, he not only shows a native instinct of verse, but a lofty ideal of poetry as an art.
You, it is true, have a taste for letters and poetry rare among your countrywomen.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poetry" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ease; elegance; facility; flow; fluency; grace; poem; poesy; poetry; rhyme; rune; song; verse
