Sentence examples for great verse from inspiring English sources

WH Auden was surely as much a man of witness and as great verse.

T. S. Eliot, editor of a Kipling collection, wrote that though not a great poet, he was a great verse writer; adding that to be a great verse writer you must write some verse that's indistinguishable from poetry.

FOR Russians, Alexander Pushkin's great verse novel "Eugene Onegin" is so sacred a text that even Tchaikovsky hesitated before embarking on an opera taken from the book.

But as much as I enjoyed the visceral punch of the production, I found myself greedy for the riveting music of Shakespeare's great verse.

I would also pack Taking off Emily Dickinson's Clothes the most recent collection from America's new poet laureate, Billy Collins - it's great verse, moving, intelligent and darkly funny.

His great verse epic The Ashes of Gramsci (1957) was, Calvino wrote to him, the "most important" poem to have emerged in postwar Italy.

Love is patient, love is kind: this is the visual embodiment of those great verses from Corinthians so often read at weddings.

It served me well standing on the side of countless wet hillsides, and I wonder whether the mystical powers of tea, like the great verses of Homer, are somehow passed down through the generations.

Mr. Ross has an ear for hooks, and that's on display on most of this strong collection, whether it's on songs that are solid end to end, like "All Birds," a collaboration between Mr. Ross and French Montana, or even on songs featuring great hooks without great verses between them, like "Actin' Up".

Elsewhere, Nelson takes on topics from the war in Iraq ("This all started when 19 men from Saudi Arabia attacked us. Our response was to invade Iraq. Sorry, but I still don't get it") to songwriting ("I'd sooner have 3 great verses than 30 mediocre ones") to sex ("It's not premarital sex until you actually get married").

Those are some great verses regarding keeping the peace.