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

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

In his proem to the first book he invokes one of the furies to aid him in his task: “Thesiphone, thou help me for tendyte Thise woful vers, that wepen as I wryte!”

From Astronomical Lore in Chaucer by Grimm, Florence M.

This bitter attack on his beloved art gave the occasion for Vondel's famous vindication of the drama in his proem to the "Lucifer."

From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den