Sentence examples for verse version from inspiring English sources

Meyer's superb blank verse version rescued the play from oblivion.

Downer showed the book to Hughes, who – while impressed with the effort - offered to provide his own verse version.

This verse version tells of a drought when the Comanche lived on the Southern Great Plains and selfish men refused to make sacrifices to end it.

Intriguingly, there was an early blank verse version of Stoppard's play – called Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Meet King Lear, in which the action reaches England – but it is unsurprising that the later text, which alternates prose dialogue in 20th-century vernacular with verbatim interludes from Hamlet, is the one that flourished.

The first segment of the set saw her run through ballads and slower fare (Love On Top, Halo, 1+1) before she was joined by Sheeran for a Sheeranised – acoustic guitar, slow, British-accented rap verse – version of Drunk In Love.

The new verse version of "Yours" was released to radio on August 1, 2008.

Two Old English verse versions of the Life drawn on the work of Felix were written, which show the vigour of vernacular heroic and elegiac modes in Ælfwald's kingdom.

The sonnets for Poe, Baudelaire and Verlaine apply this apocalyptic vision with eerie precision, though for all the skill of his free-verse versions, Manson is unable to evict the chime of "death" with "breath" at the end of "Tombeau for Verlaine".

Delightfully illustrated by the Indian artist Ram Singh Urveti, "I Saw a Peacock With a Fiery Tail" (Tara Books, $18) dusts off a 17th-century English nursery rhyme written in trick verse; this version has die-cuts on each page to reveal the poem's hidden meanings.

There MacLiammóir's Diarmuid agus Gráinne (1928), a verse-play version, in Gaelic, of a Celtic myth about two famous lovers, was first produced.

He said, 'Well, can you do better?' And I said, 'Well, let me see.' " When she returned with a free-verse, contemporary version of the text, the couple recalled, Robert Hollander said, "Hey, that's not bad".