An approach that has appealed to some choreographers is reminiscent of Charles Olson's statement of the process of projective verse: `` one perception must immediately and directly lead to a further perception ''.

It is difficult to say what Thompson expected would come of their relationship, which had begun so soon after his emotions had been stirred by Maggie Brien, but when Katie wrote on April 11, 1900, to tell him that she was to be married to the Rev. Godfrey Burr, the vicar of Rushall in Staffordshire, the news evidently helped to deepen his discouragement over the failure of his hopes for a new volume of verse.

Understanding, as he did, the difficulty of the art of poetry, and believing that the `` only technical criticism worth having in poetry is that of poets '', he felt obliged to insist upon his duty to be hard to please when it came to the review of a book of verse.

A verse familiar to all grammarians is the quatrain: `` I saw a man once beat his wife When on a drunken spree.

So far these remarks, like most criticisms of Hardy, have tacitly assumed that his poetry is all of a piece, one solid mass of verse expressing a sensibility at a single stage of development.

he further reasoned that frequent formulas in epic verse indicate oral composition, and assumed the slightly less likely corollary that oral epic is inclined towards the use of formulas.

Even though the bondage of his verse is not so great as the writing poet can manage, it is still great enough for him often to be seriously impeded unless he has aids to facilitate rapid composition.

The full version of the song from Melbourne Punch, the fourth verse of which is pasted onto the urn

A label containing a six line verse is pasted on the urn.

This is the fourth verse of a song-lyric published in Melbourne Punch on 1 February 1883:

According to the Dictionary of American Hymnology, " Amazing Grace " is John Newton's spiritual autobiography in verse.

Bruce Hindmarsh suggests that the secular popularity of " Amazing Grace " is due to the absence of any mention of God in the lyrics until the fourth verse ( by Excell's version, the fourth verse begins " When we've been there ten thousand years "), and that the song represents the ability of humanity to transform itself instead of a transformation taking place at the hands of God.

* Giuseppe Barzilai goes back for explanation to the first verse of the prayer attributed to Rabbi Nehunya ben HaKanah, the literal rendering of which is “ O, with thy mighty right hand deliver the unhappy ,” forming from the initial and final letters of the words the word Abrakd ( pronounced Abrakad ), with the meaning “ the host of the winged ones ,” i. e., angels.

This verse is also featured in William Billing's popular Sacred Harp song " David's Lamentation ", first published in 1778.

Alcaeus ( Alkaios, ) of Mytilene ( c. 620 – 6th century BC ), Greek lyric poet from Lesbos Island who is credited with inventing the Alcaic verse.

In one of these the writing is prose, in the other a combination of prose and alliterating verse.

The latter manuscript was severely damaged in the 18th and 19th centuries, and the authorship of the verse has been much disputed ; but likely it also is by Alfred.

An example of ancient aesthetics in Greece through poetry is Plato's quote: " For the authors of those great poems which we admire, do not attain to excellence through the rules of any art ; but they utter their beautiful melodies of verse in a state of inspiration, and, as it were, possessed by a spirit not their own.

A number of Roman Catholic writers connect this verse with the Woman of the Apocalypse in, which immediately follows, and argue that the Blessed Virgin Mary is the " Ark of the New Covenant.

In syllabic verse, such as that used in French literature, an alexandrine is a line of twelve syllables.

In accentual-syllabic verse, it is a line of iambic hexameter-a line of six feet or measures (" iambs "), each of which has two syllables with an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

" Pretty Little Picture " is frequently dropped from productions of the show, and one verse of " I'm Calm " is also frequently trimmed.

The line, which lacks a proper caesura, is translated " Not every critic sees an inharmonious verse.

* Nathan the Wise ; a dramatic poem in five acts, translated into English verse by Bayard Quincy Morgan.

The opening verse of John is translated as " the Word was with God and the Word was God " in all orthodox and historical Bibles.

The verse is translated in the KJV as follows, " Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born ".

Andronicus also translated Homer's Greek epic the Odyssey into an old type of Latin verse called Saturnian.

In 1927 he published a short book, On the Poems of Henry Vaughan, Characteristics and Intimations, with his principal Latin poems carefully translated into English verse ( London: H. Cobden-Sanderson, 1927 ), expanding and revising an essay that he had published in November 1926 in the London Mercury.

A collection of her verse has appeared in English in " Flora Brovina, Call me by my Name, Poetry from Kosova " in a bilingual Albanian-English Edition, translated by Robert Elsie, New York: Gjonlekaj 2001.

The Bodhisattvacharyāvatāra or Bodhicaryāvatāra, sometimes translated into English as A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, is a famous Mahāyāna Buddhist text written c. 700 AD in Sanskrit verse by Shantideva ( Śāntideva ), a Buddhist monk at Nālandā Monastic University in India.

Among his publications were The Microscope made Easy ( 1743 ), Employment for the Microscope ( 1753 ), and several volumes of verse, original and translated, including The Universe, a Poem intended to restrain the Pride of Man ( 1727 ).

The College motto is a biblical quotation from 1 Corinthians, chapter 16, verse 13, in Greek, " ΑΝΔΡΙΖΕΣΘΕ ", translated in the King James Version as " Quit ye like men " ( alternatively, in the Douay Rheims version, " Do manfully " or, in the New American Bible, " Be courageous ").

Time. com < www. time. com / time / photogallery / 0, 29307, 1870689, 00. html > Accessed: 22 May 2009 </ ref > The verb translated " love " in this verse is agapao.

As on his 1994 Last Night appearance, he sang one verse in a Welsh translation, with the chorus also translated into Welsh.

His son, Louis, showed great precocity and at the age of ten, translated into French verse one of his father's Latin pieces.

Another verse in the Quran is translated as:

Not only did the poets aim for a polished high style in emulation of the Roman ideal, they also translated and imitated Greek and Latin verse resulting in measured rationalised elegant verse.

The French literary historian Jean-Claude Bonnet calls Télémaque “ the true key to the museum of the eighteenth century imagination .” One of the most popular works of the century, it was an immediate best seller both in France and abroad, going through many editions and translated into every European language and even Latin verse ( first in Berlin in 1743, then in Paris by Étienne Viel ).

Virtually all her verse is veiled autobiography written in the French language ; most of it has never been translated into English.

Its primacy is indicated in chapter III, verse 47: This book shall be translated into all tongues: but always with the original in the writing of the Beast ; for in the chance shape of the letters and their position to one another: in these are mysteries that no Beast shall divine.

Gascoigne translated two plays performed in 1566 at Grays Inn, the most aristocratic of the Renaissance London Inns of Court: the prose comedy Supposes based on Ariosto ’ s Suppositi, and Jocasta, a tragedy in blank verse which is said to have derived from Euripides ’ s Phoenissae, but appears more directly as a translation from the Italian of Lodovico Dolce ’ s Giocasta.

He was the author of numerous works, including: a Greek grammar in the form of question and answer, like the Erotemata of Manuel Moschopulus, with an appendix on the so-called " Political verse "; a treatise on syntax ; a biography of Aesop and a prose version of the fables ; scholia on certain Greek authors ; two hexameter poems, one a eulogy of Claudius Ptolemaeus — whose Geography was rediscovered by Planudes, who translated it into Latin — the other an account of the sudden change of an ox into a mouse ; a treatise on the method of calculating in use amongst the Indians ( ed.

As a patron of poets and authors James V supported William Stewart and John Bellenden, who translated the Latin History of Scotland compiled in 1527 by Hector Boece, into verse and prose.

A little later the poet Ausonius handed down some of these fables in verse, which Julianus Titianus, a contemporary writer of no great name, translated into prose, and in the early 5th century Avianus put 42 of these fables into Latin elegiacs.

Molière produced a verse translation which does not survive ; John Evelyn translated the first book.