Sentence Examples

1. At funerals, poetry is increasingly used to sing the words the heart is too wounded to speak.
2. An early poem is only remarkable when it displays an effort of reason, and the rudest verses in which we can trace some conception of the ends of poetry, are worth all the miracles of smooth juvenile versification.
3. One theory was that the book was a kind of allegory, setting forth the eternal struggle between the ideal and the real, between the spirit of poetry and the spirit of prose and perhaps German philosophy never evolved a more ungainly or unlikely camel out of the depths of its inner consciousness.
4. At the age of five the boy recited, with fine effect, passages of English poetry to the visitors at the Allan house.
5. The pages were laid out in the fashion of poetry, and with more care than had been used to put it on the floor she placed the book back on the table.
6. Damon and Thyrsis, Phyllis and Chloe had been fairly naturalised in Spain, together with all the devices of pastoral poetry for investing with an air of novelty the idea of a dispairing shepherd and inflexible shepherdess.
7. We see it in how people with dementia become alive again when they hear poetry or music from their childhood.
8. One oral tradition handed down from one generation to the next through poetry, because just like music, lyrics we easily remember today, poems are much easier to memorize.
9. Apart from an unnaturally pale man with faded pink eyes and an elderly orc engrossed in a poetry book, he was alone.
10. There are those who will be glad to know how the lamp, whose light of poetry has beamed on their far-away recognition, was watched over with care and pain, that they may send to her, who is more darkened than they by its extinction, some token of their sympathy.