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

I sent you the proem, which you published as a preface to the "Froissart Ballads."

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various

Ah me!" sounds the note of the proem to the second series, scornful and sad:— "Ah me!

From Robert Browning by Herford, C. H. (Charles Harold)

If correctly given the centre letters of the lights will give the proem.

From Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various