151 Words to use with poets

The beauties of their life, and their tragic death, were given by the poet-laureate of the day in the words I have just transcribed; and such an impression did these make on the minds of the inhabitants, that the whole population took them to heart, and, with tears in their eyes, taught them to their children, even unto the third and fourth generations.

Max Dauthendey, poet-philosopher.

And as she courses from star to star, explaining to him the mysteries, the transported poet exclaims: "Ah, all the tongues which the Muses have inspired could not tell the thousandth part of the beauty of the smile of Beatrice as she presented me to the celestial group, exclaiming, 'Thou art redeemed!'

Believe, dear Friends, they murmur still Some sweet accord to those you play, That happier winds of Eden thrill With echoes of the earthly lay; That he, for every triumph won, Whereto your poet-souls aspire, Sees opening, in that perfect sun, Another blossom's bud of fire!

And some in stone can catch the things of which the dreamy poet sings, While others seem to have no way to tell the joys they see.

The suppression, though undoubtedly effectual for the moment, and in the particular spots it reached, produced no general or lasting effect. About a century after the cold recital of William of Jumieges, a poet-chronicler, Robert Wace, in his Romance of Rou, a history in verse of Rollo and the first dukes of Normandy, related the same facts with far more sympathetic feeling and poetical coloring.

"Mother used to say you had a poet lover, who called you the twilight cloud, violet dissolving into lilac.

"Such sights as poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream."

Her movement across the floor before the tyrant and his guests at table, the quaint fluttering of her drapery, the well-bred admiration of the spectators, their horror when she brings the Baptist's head to Herodias, and the weak face of the half-remorseful Herod are expressed with a dramatic power that shows the genius of a poet painter.

"Here are a couple of letters I forgot to mail to my poet friend, Bayard Taylor.

He shall inspire my verse with gentle mood, Of poets prince, whether he woon* beside Faire Xanthus sprincled with Chimaeras blood, Or in the woods of Astery abide, 20 Or whereas Mount Parnasse, the Muses brood, Doth his broad forhead like two hornes divide, And the sweete waves of sounding Castaly With liquid foote doth slide downe easily.

THE LIFE OF GOETHE BY CALVIN THOMAS, LL.D. Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Columbia University Goethe, the illustrious poet-sage whom Matthew Arnold called the "clearest, largest, and most helpful thinker of modern times," was born August 28, 1749, at Frankfurt on the Main.

The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler, who shall not trifle, with Shakspeare the player, nor shall grope in graves, with Swedenborg the mourner; but who shall see, speak, and act, with equal inspiration.

940 First write Bezaliel, whose illustrious name Forestalls our praise, and gives his poet fame.

"Though some of us cannot express our inmost thoughts of loveliness, We prove we love the beautiful by how we act and live; The poet singing of a tree no greater poet is than he Who finds it in his heart some care unto a tree to give.

For either he has been familiar with such scenes, and imagines them just as the other poet imagines his English landscape-by an effort of mental vision, calling up the absent objects; or he has merely read the descriptions of others, and from these makes up his picture.

There may have beenindeed, there wasa more considerable poet living; but a more excellent writer of romances, than the author of "Eliduc," it would have been difficult to find.

Think on the humming afternoon Within some busy wood in June, When nettle patches, drunk with the sun, Are fiery outposts of the shade; While gnats keep up a dizzy reel, And the grasshopper, perched upon his blade, Loud drones his fairy threshing-wheel: Hour when some poet-wit might feign The drowsy tune of the throbbing air

The next five years were spent partly in Frankfort and partly in Wetzlar, partly in the forced exercise of his profession, but chiefly in literary labors and the use of the pencil, which for a time disputed with the pen the devotion of the poet-artist.

Poets desire either to profit or to delight, or to tell things which are at once pleasant and profitable.

The error is of long standing, as the following story related by the Persian poet Saadi (of the thirteenth century) will show (346): AN ORIENTAL LOVE-STORY

The amiable poet Cowper had frequently made the Slave Trade the subject of his contemplation.

Once again thy Poet-voice May sing sweet paeans to the golden Morn, Again may hail the saviour Light sun-born, And bid the wild and desert waste rejoice, Again with sighs the looming darkness mourn.

So Colonel Roosevelt may be interested to hear that the poet-king of Provence is an enthusiastic Bull Mooser.

To a poet-sailor.

151 Words to use with  poets