Louise writes lovely poetry and 'stories of human interest,' and Beth" "I can't write even a good letter," asserted that young lady; "but I'd dearly love to edit a newspaper.

Why, you wouldn't expect her to sit around under the trees, and read poetry with her own husband, would you?

Accept my thanks, in common with those of all who love good poetry, for "The Braes of Yarrow."

Perhaps it ought to, but in general opinion it doesn't, any more than reciting poetry in bed does.

Everything he did would help his arithmetic, and geography, and history; and these and those and all things besides, would help him to understand poetry.

Even a child of four can enjoy the poetry of the Psalms without asking for much understanding.

In my opinion it contains finer poetry than has appeared in England since Paradise Lost.

Without doubt, the only aim in giving poetry to children is to help them to appreciate it, and the only method to secure this is to read it to them appreciatively and often.

She likes poetry and all such things.

When the logic leaves the poetry behind, it grows first presumptuous, then hard, then narrow and untrue to the original breadth of the symbol; the glory of the symbol vanishes; and the final result is a worship of the symbol, which has withered into an apple of Sodom.

And they know how to appreciate poetry, too," he added with satisfaction.

As almost every one thinks that he or she can compose poetry, and that better than others, it often happens that in a prize poem competition there is no lack of persons ready to enter the lists.

I do not find much poetry in it.

'There may be a poetical genius shewn in combining these, and in making poetry of them.'

Especially as regards religious poetry we are as yet only approaching the lyrical jubilee.

Although these critics generally, with the exceptions of Aristotle and Eratosthenes, believed the greatest value of poetry to be in the teaching of morality, no one of them endeavored to define poetry, as they did rhetoric, by its purpose.

It was so queer to stop a car when she was going well just to stare around and talk poetry about a lot of trees.

Chaucer freed himself from all the affectations and extravagances and artificiality which characterized the poetry of the Middle Ages.

"Say, Songbird, please don't quote poetry when we are waiting to hear all about Tad Sobber.

The first man who broke away from the confines of the literal meaning of a word and applied the word to something that only in a figurative sense had qualities analogous to the original meaning, was creating poetry.

The bitter words of this sonnet will not seem unmerited to those who have studied Italian poetry in the Cinque Centothe refined playthings of verse, the romances, and the burlesque nonsense, which amused a corrupt though highly cultivated age.

Harvey was a classical scholar and rhetorician who knew that poetry and oratory were different things, and believed verse to be the mark of the first and prose of the latter[240].

I remember some poetry about the 'Sister bloodhounds, Want and Sin,' and know that they hunt oftener together than singly.

213:'The wits must praise her bad poetry if they frequented her house.

The Romans produced no poetry worthy of notice until the Greek language and literature were introduced among them.