Example sentences for: poem

How can you use “poem” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • They are written in the light, teary, lovely style of 19 th -century French song--the style that you can see in a little pastoral love poem of Hugo's, with the singer and pianist joined by Philippa Davies on flute, by clicking . The songs convey some of the orderliness and purity of Hugo's poetic imagination, his unflappable fluency, his verse structures varying with perfect control, as if every possible variation on rhythmic and melodic order lay easily within his grasp--as in, for instance, the opening bars that you can hear by clicking .

  • But that word "first" stamps the poem with a lovely air of aroused virginity, not one of suspicious belatedness.

  • Thus, one has a romantic poem written in Latin in which the first line contains the words for man and woman on opposite ends of the line.

  • The most significant expedition under Manuel’s flag was Vasco da Gama’s legendary sea voyage from Lisbon in the summer of 1497 — immortalized in The Lusiads (1572), the epic poem by Portugal’s national poet, Luís de Camões (1524–1580).

  • "Like a dense poem," says the Chicago Tribune 's Steve Johnson.


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