POEM in a Sentence

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66 example sentences for POEM, such as:

1. She wrote poems in praise of freedom.
2. The poet recited some of her recent poems.
3. The poem showed great intensity of feeling.
4. A hundred volumes of his poems were printed.
5. It's a poem, pasted on the back of this bill.

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 Meanings and Examples of POEM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
poem
 n.  a piece of writing, arranged in patterns of lines and of sounds
Classic Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1  There were very few there who knew what "tete" meant, but the poem was very satisfactory, nevertheless.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
2  The humorous poem was admirably recited, and the speaker much applauded.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
3  The beginning of the poem he praised with great generosity: he even found the idea original and effective.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
4  One wrote a whole poem about it, and said the bell sounded like the voice of a mother to a good dear child, and that no melody was sweeter than the tones of the bell.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE BELL
5  The history which he related to me of his lost son touched me to the quick; indeed, his griefs, hopes, and fears on that subject might furnish material for a most touching and pathetic poem.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 56. Andrea Cavalcanti.
6  Albert's lips scarcely whispered "Good-by," but his look was more explicit; it expressed a whole poem of restrained anger, proud disdain, and generous indignation.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 91. Mother and Son.
7  Those who hear the bitter cry are as much impressed as if they listened to an entire poem, and when the sufferer is sincere they are right in regarding his outburst as sublime.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 111. Expiation.
8  This obscure, whimsical, and disagreeable poem was despised upon its first publication, and I only treat it now as it was treated in its own country by contemporaries.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXV
9  Lord Byron was beginning to make his mark; a note to a poem by Millevoye introduced him to France in these terms: a certain Lord Baron.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817
10  He would put in his poem, a loquacious old fellow, like me, and he would call him Nestor.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
11  I have begun a poem in verses of one syllable.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 28 THE RETURN
12  Aramis, who was constantly at work at his poem, shut himself up in Athos's closet, and begged not to be disturbed before the moment of drawing swords.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 30 D'ARTAGNAN AND THE ENGLISHMAN
13  Aramis, who had the third canto of his poem to finish, behaved like a man in haste.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 31 ENGLISH AND FRENCH
14  It's a poem, pasted on the back of this bill.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
15  As encore to "An Old Sweetheart of Mine," she gave a peculiarly optimistic poem regarding the value of smiles.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
16  The poem showed great intensity of feeling.
17  He was fond of quoting a fragment from a certain poem.
18  And yet even this New York girl would blench at the idea of approaching total strangers in the streets with a poem.
19  The poem is still under copyright, so you have to pay to quote it.
20  The girl repeated the poem after I had read it twice.
21  The poem blends the separate ingredients into a unity.
22  Histories make men wise ; poems witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep ; moral grave ; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
23  His poems were published under the title of 'Love and Reason'.
24  I chanced on a copy of the collection of Shakespeare's poems in the library.
25  These poems have received a lot of critical attention.
26  She wrote poems in praise of freedom.
27  A hundred volumes of his poems were printed.
28  Send in your poems and we'll publish the pick of the bunch.
29  In his poems everyday reality is invested with a sense of wonder and delight.
30  The poet recited some of her recent poems.