poem

• The subject of the poem is an event below the common incidents of common life; nothing real is introduced that is not seen so often as to be no longer regarded; yet the whole detail of a female day is here brought before us invested with so much art of decoration, that, though nothing is disguised, every thing is striking, and we feel all the appetite of curiosity for that from which we have a thousand times turned fastidiously away The purpose of the poet is, as he tells us, to laugh at "the little unguarded follies of the female sex." —  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II
• [8 A letter from Welsted to Dodington, however, shows that though the poem was a collaborative effort and though others may have made suggestions and additions, Welsted felt himself responsible for the poem. —  Two Poems Against Pope One Epistle to Mr. A. Pope and the Blatant Beast
• He took the book from his host to see what the poem was about. —  The Northern Iron
• Take one midnight storm, and one fisherman's family, which, if the poem is to be a real success, should be as large and as hungry as possible, and must contain at least one innocent infant. —  Every Man His Own Poet Or, The Inspired Singer's Recipe Book
• And you know such a thing as business has never entered his mind for six months--unless it was business to write that 'Apostrophe to the Heart,' which he called a poem, and which, I don't mind admitting now, I hired his foreman to pi after the copy was lost Keep everything as near ship-shape as you can. —  Aladdin ; Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic

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