Sentence examples for captivating poems from inspiring English sources
All the best known verses, such as "The Owl and the Pussy Cat", "The Jumblies" and "The Dong with the Luminous Nose", are included, but there are also less familiar but equally captivating poems as well as hundreds of pithy limericks.
That battle is palpable here; he has achieved a faithful rendering of the epic that is also an original, captivating poem in its own right.
Celebrating the captivating poem.
At the time I didn't peer into the book deeply enough to be captivated by the poems as I later decisively would be.
"Thousands of weary feet, where theirs have completed their journey!" Longfellow's poem captivated millions of American and Canadian readers, and the fictional Evangeline became a hero Acadians could rally around.
Now Sam Hamill has edited "Toward the Distant Islands: New and Selected Poems," a modestly sized volume that presents much — but not all — of what makes Carruth so captivating a poet.
Gregarious, captivating, and unusually liberal on the question of women's careers, Bowles had a high regard for Dickinson's poems, publishing (without her consent) seven of them during her lifetime more than appeared in any other outlet.
Lists are so effortlessly captivating that one almost resents their casual magic, by which any collection of three or more nouns becomes a poem.
The effect was captivating.
