Indeed, poetry itself became prosaic in this respect, that it was used not for creative works of imagination, but for essays, for satire, for criticism,for exactly the same practical ends as was prose.

His outlook is as prosaic as General von Bernhardi's or General von der Golt's own, and that is saying a great deal.

Even a telegram, most prosaic of correspondence, which I meet with at this moment, is a little poem in its way, and brings back scenes and circumstances over which memory loves to linger.

In a setting less prosaic than Little Arcady, where events might be of a story-fitness, that lover would have been alive by a happy chance, estranged by the misunderstanding but splendidly faithful, and I should have been helper and interested witness to an ideal reconciliation; thereafter to play out my game with a full heart, though with an exterior placidly unconcerned.

And when, after three weeks of rough sailing in the good bark Azor, we saw Cape Ann again, although it looked somewhat flat and prosaic after the headlands of Fayal, yet we knew that behind those low shores lay all that our hearts held dearest, and all the noblest hopes of the family of man.

The romantic dropped to the prosaic with a suddenness that provoked in her an almost irresistible desire to laugh.

But moonlight and running water have a curious effect upon me; and I, who am the most prosaic among women, become ridiculously sentimental.

We all write verses at some moment or other in our lives, even the most prosaic amongst ussome because they are happy; some because they are sad; some because the living fire of youth impels them, and they must be up and doing, let the work be what it may.

I am too old, too experienced, too worldly-wise, too prosaic for you in every way.