"Unrhymed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Told how the Indian hordes came down At midnight on Cocheco town, And how her own great-uncle bore His cruel scalp-mark to fourscore. Recalling, in her fitting phrase, So rich and picturesque and free, (The common unrhymed poetry Of simple life and country ways,) The story of her early days,— She made us welcome to her home; Old hearths grew wide to give us room; We stole with her a frightened look At the gray wizard's conjuring-book, The fame whereof went ...
— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier
... array of daily verse our times produce this volume utters itself with a range and brilliancy wholly remarkable. I cannot see that Miss Lowell's use of unrhymed 'vers libre' has been surpassed in English. Read 'The Captured Goddess', 'Music', and 'The Precinct. Rochester', a piece of mastercraft in this kind. A wealth of subtleties and sympathies, gorgeously wrought, ...
— A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass • Amy Lowell
... Collins can tell the truth without falsification or chilling rhetoric. Here he is writing of the world as he has really seen it and been moved by it. He still makes use of personifications, but they have been transmuted by his emotion into imagery. In these exquisite formal unrhymed lines, Collins has summed up his view and dream of life. One knows that he was not lying or bent upon expressing any other man's experiences but his own when ...
— The Art of Letters • Robert Lynd
... — N. prose, prose writer. prosaicism[obs3], prosaism[obs3], prosaist[obs3], proser[obs3]. V. prose. write prose, write in prose. Adj. prosal[obs3],prosy, prosaic; unpoetic, unpoetical[obs3]. rhymeless[obs3], unrhymed, in prose, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus |
