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• Well, poetry! (10)
• It is our poetry! (10)
• Poetry, I suppose! (10)
• Poetry of Motion. (8)
• Could it be poetry? (10)
• Read French poetry. (10)
• He poured forth their poetry. (10)
• I know you are in favour of poetry. (10)
• But it seems to me to require poetry. (10)
• You are a reader of history and poetry. (10)
• It is the romance, the poetry of our age. (9)
• His poetry is nothing but one long explosion. (8)
• I feel: only I feel too intensely for poetry. (10)
• By the nature of it, poetry cannot be sincere. (10)
• In poetry, I would scorn anything but impromptus. (10)
• What was a leading characteristic of their poetry? (3)
• Why did they express themselves in poetry and music? (3)
• Music and poetry were the chief subjects of instruction. (3)
• He read assiduously, and was especially devoted to poetry. (3)
• Has not Dante himself told us that no poetry can be translated? (14)
• There we find our nationality, our poetry, no Hebrew competing. (10)
• Afterwards it was solemnly discovered that Richard wrote poetry. (10)
• Poetry, and especially that cast in a homely mould, was his vent for this feeling. (14)
• Do you never make poetry here, and dream dreams, among your mountains? (8)
• He well-nigh loves his poets, can almost understand what poetry means. (10)
• The latter expressed a fear that the hour was too critical for poetry. (10)
• We must have poetry with them; otherwise they are better in the kitchen. (10)
• The pupil of Gower Woodseer asked himself to specify the poetry of woman. (10)
• Her splendid prose Alvan could do what the sprig of poetry can but suggest. (10)
• She walked; she read poetry; she begged him to pardon her for not drinking wine. (10)
• She walked; she read poetry; she begged him to pardon her for not drinking wine. (22)
• All that he loved in poetry and nature, had in it something craggy and culminating. (8)
• Of course I can read of this rich kind of English country with pleasure in poetry. (10)
• The fact had its pathos and its poetry which no one could have felt more keenly than he. (9)
• Myths and legends were like poetry and music, to be taken only when the spirit yearns for them. (20)
• He knew, too, that he was prescribing poetry to his betrothed, practicable poetry. (10)
• Our simplest prose style is nearer to poetry with us, for this reason, that the poets have made it. (10)
• I suspect that good poetry by well-known hands was never better paid in the magazines than it is now. (9)
• The phenomenon of a new poet sends him back into an inquiry into the very realities of poetry itself. (14)
• I was reading right and left in every direction, but chiefly in that of poetry, criticism, and fiction. (9)
• Their poetry was not that of Milton and Byron and Tennyson; of Raphael and Titian; Mozart and Beethoven. (8)
• His father lacked poetry, the stirrings of which he was feeling for the first time in his nineteen years. (8)
• Here he was almost as fine as in his poetry, and only less fine than in his more fortunate essays in fiction. (9)
• Poetry, sculpture, and songs, and all the Arts, were brought forward in mournful array to demonstrate the truth of his theory. (10)
• His work took the shape of scholarship, fiction, criticism, but poetry gave it all a touch of grace and beauty. (9)
• Her look at him fed the school on thoughts of what love really is, when it is not fished out of books and poetry. (10)
• I have known no man who loved poetry more generously and passionately; and I think he was above all things a poet. (9)
• The greater part of poetry is about the stars; and very justly, for they are themselves the most classical of poets. (2)
• But when he came to hear that the youth was writing poetry, his wounded heart had its reasons for being much disturbed. (10)
• He is a commonplace looking young man, with a decided jaw, tall, neat, soulful, who has been in the war and writes poetry. (8)
• I should no more have thought of questioning the poetry of any passage in him than of questioning the proofs of holy writ. (9)
• If it does not please these, it may still be poetry, but it is poetry which has failed of its truest office. (9)
• He read much, slowly, but with conscientious tenacity, poetry, history, and works on philosophy, religion, and social matters. (8)
• I must say, too, that I think the quality of the minor poetry of our day is better than that of twenty-five or thirty years ago. (9)
• It is rich in legendary lore, and the poetry of Pushkin and Gogol has wrought the wild beauty of these tales into permanent form. (3)
• The Legitimists, the Moderates, and the Republicans are to proclaim themselves in its columns in prose, poetry, and hotch-potch. (10)
• His own choice was for poetry, and the most of our library, which was not given to theology, was given to poetry. (9)
• The mazurkas with their vital rhythms and novel harmonies, contain much poetry of mood and variety of expression within small limits. (3)
• It was not very well written, this poetry of labour, but the pluck of the sentiment redeemed what was weak or wordy in the expression. (2)
• Although he possessed great brilliancy, the most prominent trait in his playing was its all-pervading and inexhaustible fund of poetry. (3)
• The inclemency of heaven, which has thus endowed the language of Scotland with words, has also largely modified the spirit of its poetry. (2)
• They were delightful evenings; there could be no pleasanter occupation; the spirits of poetry, of learning, of friendship, were with us. (14)
• I am afraid that if we let ourselves drop into poetry, the birth rate of this country will very soon drop into poetry too. (8)
• In face they were commonplace, with nothing but the American poetry of vivid purpose to light them up, where they did not wholly lack fire. (9)
• Generally, I fancy his pleasure in poetry was not great, and I do not believe he cared much for the conventionally accepted masterpieces of literature. (9)
• Highly cultivated in literature, philosophy and poetry, he possessed a keen and discerning critical taste, and a literary style that was picturesque and eloquent. (3)

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