If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.

He also displayed the ability to write Latin verse on almost any topic of dispute, the verses, of course, to be delivered from memory.

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

* 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.

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

Scholars in support of the idea of Amos being from the North also say it makes more sense because of Amaziah's accusation of conspiracy found in chapter seven, verse 10.

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

He was able to write a letter in exile, with no access to a copy of the Scriptures, and quote from memory every verse in the Old Testament with reference to the Trinity without missing any.

The book is written in a complex and poetic Hebrew ( apart from verse 10: 11, curiously written in Biblical Aramaic ).

In verse eighteen, it says that once judgment has been carried out, “ There will be no survivors from the house of Esau ” ( NIV ).

Most pop standard and jazz ballads are built from a single, introductory verse ; usually around 16 bars in length, and ending on the dominant ; the chorus or refrain, usually it is 16 or 32 bars long, and in AABA form ( though other forms such as ABAC are not uncommon ).

They also use the biblical verse of Romans 10: 9 " That if you confess with your mouth, ' Jesus is Lord ', and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

This follows from the verse in John 6: 44, " No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him.

Doreen Valiente, a student of Gardner, took his version from his Book of Shadows and adapted it into verse, and later into another prose version.

The word was coined from the Latin controversia, as a composite of controversus – " turned in an opposite direction ," from contra – " against " – and vertere – to turn, or versus ( see verse ), hence, " to turn against.

The tales ( mostly written in verse although some are in prose ) are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral.

One final, amusing example that comments on the importance Roman poets placed on their verse rules comes from the Ars Poetica of Horace, line 263:

However this first verse does not occur in the earliest known version from the Guodian Chu Slips and there is speculation that it may have been added by later commentators.

The idea of rta laid the cornerstone of dharma's implicit attribution to the " ultimate reality " of the surrounding universe, in classical Vedic Hinduism the following verse from the Rig-Veda is an example where rta is mentioned:

The tombstone had an inscription with words from the fourth verse of McLean ’ s song:

Changing between ride and hi-hat, or between either and a leaner sound with neither, is often used to mark a change from one passage to another, for example to distinguish verse and chorus.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot | Lightfoot notes with respect to verse 6: 11 that at this point " the apostle takes the pen from his amanuensis, and the concluding paragraph is written with his own hand ".

His published poetry dates from this period and, along with Edward Dyer he was one of the first courtiers to introduce vernacular verse to the court.

" The New American Standard Bible ( NASB ) translates this verse in the latter manner, and translations in other languages such as the Dutch Statenvertaling translate it likewise: " When this letter is read among you, have it also read in the church of the Laodiceans ; and you, for your part read my letter ( that is coming ) from Laodicea.

Bryn Mawr Drive is only two or three miles from the Spartan, and it took me less than five minutes to get there.

A call to the police had been placed from here a couple of minutes after nine P.M., and the first police car had arrived two or three minutes after that -- 10 minutes ago now.

The crowd consequently breaks up into temporary groups ranging in size from two to six, with a half-life for the cluster ranging from three to twenty minutes.

Despite three warnings, no sense of moral urgency impelled him to distinguish his situation, and thus his responsibilities, from Wilson's.

If we examine the three types of change from the point of view of their internal structure we find an additional profound difference between the third and the first two, one that accounts for the notable difference between the responses they evoke.

The waspish man stopped me three paces from the bicycle barricade, and asked me in French if I had papers to leave France.

Catherwood, an architect in New York, had been forgotten, like Stephens, and Victor reconstructed their lives as one reconstructs, for a museum, a dinosaur from two or three petrified bones.

There were four from St. John's and four from Christ's, three from Pembroke, and two from each of the colleges, Jesus, Peterhouse, Queens', and Trinity, with Caius, Clare, King's, Magdalene, and Sidney supplying one each in the ordo senioritatis.

As a business man I have to use the telephone constantly, from three to four hours a day.

Bobby Joe and two or three of the other boys declared they had never been possum-hunting, and Uncle Bill Farnworth ( from Mama Albright's side of the family ) said he would just get up from there and take them, right then.

At times, three ships a day from the Soviet bloc are unloading in Cuban ports.

The round minarets, tall and graceful, rise from rectangular bases and have three platforms from which the muezzin can chant his call to prayer.

There are three principal feed bunk types for dairy and beef cattle: ( 1 ) Fence-line bunks -- cattle eat from one side while feed is put in from the opposite side of the fence by self-unloading wagons ; ;

Long weekends enable many to get away from home for three or four days several times a year.

Spectra were also obtained from a third sample of Af which had been diluted to three times its original volume with powdered, anhydrous alundum ( Af ).

It was then distilled at least three times from a trap at -78-degrees to a liquid air trap with only a small middle fraction being retained in each distillation.

The best way to determine the correct figure ( in captives ) is by direct observation of pairs isolated from birth, a method that produced surprising results: maturing of a male Indian python in less than two years, his mate in less than three ; ;

Results from this approach amply confirm the direct observations: about three years are required, there being a possible slight difference between males and females in the time required.