proem

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After a moment or two, I said, “Well, some died in the war, and, if you read the proem carefully, you’ll recall that others died ‘through their own recklessness.’

From The New Yorker • Apr. 17, 2017

With this bold proem, George R. Barnes, director of BBC's "Third Program,"*launched one of the boldest ventures in the history of broadcasting.

From Time Magazine Archive

John is regarded as the writer of the proem to the fourth Gospel, also of three brief epistles.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

For us in England it was, so to speak, discovered by Professor Huxley, who many years ago gave a translation of it as a proem to a scientific periodical.

From Maxims and Reflections by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Thou art my first and last, proem and close,115 For thou art mighty, and to thee are given From Jove the sceptre and the laws in charge, For the advancement of the general good.

From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William