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

At first they're but the unfledged proem, Or songless schedule of a poem; When from the shell they're hardly dry If some folks thrust them forth, must I?

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell

The poems were a grand proem to the novels.

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

From Goethe he would have selected the noble proem to Faust: Ihr naht Euch wieder, schwankende Gestalten, for there was a note among his papers to that effect.

From Tennyson and His Friends by Various