Sentence examples for verse descriptions from inspiring English sources

Cicero says that Philodemus wrote very pleasant, elegant, clever verse to Piso and, at Piso's urging, about him, mirroring the man himself in perfect verse descriptions of his lusts, immoral acts, banquets and adulteries.

Thankfully, the rabbis expand on this single-verse description.

In a condensed one-verse description, the Ramacharitamanasa says that Tara and Hanuman were dispatched by Sugriva and were successful in appeasing Lakshmana by singing Rama's praises.

Most of the stories are short prose narratives, using verse for description and for scenes of heightened emotion.

When Mr. Gerke sang Carl Loewe's "Odins Meeresritt," for example, Mr. Quasthoff stopped him at the third verse — a description of a black knight — and said, "make it more spooky," an effect he then demonstrated.

Wisely, this fragile gem had been immortalized in an official publication that combined Benserade's verse with prose descriptions by Perrault and delicate etchings by Sébastien Le Clerc.

Poems such as "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison," "The Nightingale," and "Frost at Midnight" (now sometimes called the "conversation poems" but collected by Coleridge himself as "Meditative Poems in Blank Verse") combine sensitive descriptions of nature with subtlety of psychological comment.

Verses traditionally included descriptions of camels or horses, the trials of daily nomadic life, battle-victories, and a lament for a lost beloved.

In these, it seems that prose (now lost) was used for narrative and description and verse for dialogue and soliloquy.

Topographical poetry, verse genre characterized by the description of a particular landscape.

An early verse letter to Heaney ends with a description of "leaving careful footsteps round / A wind-encircled burial mound".