poetry
/ˈpoʊ.ə.tɹi/ noun B1- Literature composed in verse or language exhibiting conscious attention to patterns and rhythm.
- A poet's literary production.
- An artistic quality that appeals to or evokes the emotions, in any medium; something having such a quality.
Plural poetries
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She was a perfect linguist, a first-rate artist, wrote poetry, and composed music; to the study of the latter she professed to be entirely devoted, following it with an indefatigable perseverance, assisted by a schoolfellow,—a young woman without fortune whose talent promised to develop into remarkable powers as a singer.
I can read pretty well and I know ever so many pieces of poetry off by heart--‘The Battle of Hohenlinden’ and ‘Edinburgh after Flodden,’ and ‘Bingen on the Rhine,’ and lots of the ‘Lady of the Lake’ and most of ‘The Seasons,’ by James Thompson.
Don’t you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?
Diana gave me a beautiful card with a wreath of roses on it and a verse of poetry:”
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