Read full poem →Us upon whom the pressure of action is laid so lightly;
We, discontented indeed with things in particular, idle,
Sickly, complaining, by faith, in the vision of things in general,
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(focus) Especially, individually or specifically.
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Poetry examples for “in particular”
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Read full poem →What these master-rimours were, which were so
troublesome in Wales in particular, we cannot teli ;
possibly they might be the degenerate descendants of
Read full poem →Fletcher in particular does in his Faithful Shepherdess, and both of them
Read full poem →the Sapphics and Iambics, his ear, as yet untutored in more
complicated harmonies, took special delight. Two odes, in particular,
have been humming in my ear all my life since, set to the tune of his
Read full poem →the Boston _Transcript_ of June 30, 1915, in which he contrasted
the work with the Greek Anthology, pointing in particular to certain
epitaphs by Carphylides, Kallaischros and Pollianos. The critical
Read full poem →robe de parade." But in the lyric odelette, and in this last given poem
in particular, we find him leading perhaps onward toward Vildrac, and
toward a style which might be the basis for a certain manner F.M.
Read full poem →l. 69, he has _high_ (!) for _highte_; and so on. It therefore requires
careful control. In particular, the scribe gives many examples of the fault
of 'anticipation,' i.e. the fault whereby the mind, swifter than the pen,
Read full poem →while, anywhere but at Button’s Coffee House, where I used to see him
almost every day. On his meeting me there, one day in particular, he
took me aside and said he should be glad to dine with me at such a
Read full poem →the opportunities offered by stress metre, and by the
4-beat line in particular, in the modern poet’s séarch
for a continuous medium to replace blank verse and all
Read full poem →one poems lights up another, and the stories that friends, and one
friend in particular, have gathered for me, or that I have gathered
myself in many cottages, find their way into the light. I would, if I