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poems

noun as in poetry

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Reid had written poems about three other professors, all of them critical and derogatory.

But like the Icarus of her poems, Sor Juana ended up flying too close to the sun.

Love poems between aristocratic women were not uncommon at the time, as long as they stayed safely on the side of friendship.

Coursing beneath the polished surface of the love poems is something deep, dark, and defiant.

Furthermore, this agon happens between the poems or plays or novels themselves, and not between the writers.

The spelling is conformed to that of the preceding poems; the alterations though numerous are slight; as y for i, au for aw, &c.

First, in point of view of general interest, is a collection of drawings and poems in their original MS. by Thackeray.

Francis Xavier Talbot died; a French ecclesiastic, and author of some poems.

Mr. Devenish, it was a great disappointment to me that all the poems in your book seemed to be written to somebody else.

Undoubtedly the high praise given Melrose is due to the fame which it acquired from the poems and stories of Scott.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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