anacreontic

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He said this to himself as an officer was trolling forth an anacreontic song.

From Commodore Junk by Fenn, George Manville

A flower-stand filled with roses best pleases the majority of women, who cultivate a love of flowers in order to provoke anacreontic and obsolete comparisons from their antiquated admirers.

From The Cross of Berny by Fendall, Florence

The only poem of his that still lives is the beautiful little anacreontic beginning "Busy, curious, thirsty Fly."

From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by Cousin, John W. (John William)

No anacreontic thoughts came to me, I assure you, nor any disposition to rhyme in ette, herbette, filette, coudrette.

From The Cross of Berny by Fendall, Florence

The peculiar verse of Skelton, styled skeltonical, is a sort of English anacreontic.

From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Coppee, Henry