Sentence examples for composing a poem from inspiring English sources

Today is National Poetry Day and what better way to mark it than by composing a poem yourself?

He won his pardon from the chief minister of the realm, the marquês de Pombal, by composing a poem for Pombal's daughter's wedding; he subsequently became Pombal's protégé.

Her story was interrupted as a handsome gallery worker stood up after composing a poem on his laptop and offered water to a guest.

The ad, created by a Paris agency called Leg, is set to a passage from Edmond Rostand's play "Cyrano de Bergerac," in which Cyrano defeats the Viscount de Valvert in a duel while composing a poem on the spot.

Collins himself has said that when composing a poem, he has "one reader in mind, someone who is in the room with me, and who I'm talking to, and I want to make sure I don't talk too fast".

One hundred and sixty-eight bleak Decembers ago or thereabouts, Edgar Allan Poe sat before a fireplace in a farmhouse on a high bluff on what would someday be called the Upper West Side, composing a poem.

The composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had a pet starling and composed a poem for it when it died.

In her seventh-grade English class, she composed a poem.

Hugo composed a poem in honour of this event, Dicté aprés juillet 1830.

"I shall compose a poem about its beauty," thinks the Frenchman.

Nine days later, Thomas Hardy composed a poem about the disaster called "The Convergence of the Twain".