Sentence examples for verse versions from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

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

The fourth verse included on the new verse version on the song was recorded, edited, and produced on July 15 , 2008in Nashville, Tennessee by Bronlewee; it was engineered by Reid Shippen.

Ives has produced a multi-faceted, complex body of work including a new translation of Feydeau's farce, A Flea in Her Ear: New Jerusalem, based on the excommunication of Baruch Spinoza; School For Lies, a brilliant verse version of Molière's Misanthrope and Venus in Fur, which won a Tony in 2012 for its Venus, Nina Arianda.

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.