verses.

His health was feeble, his father said; he seldom ran about and played with other boys -- preferring to stay at home and brood over his books, and compose what he called his verses.

The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers Bret Harte 1869

His health was feeble, his father said; he seldom ran about and played with other boys, preferring to stay at home and brood over his books, and compose what he called his verses.

Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories Bret Harte 1869

She, pondering the bliss of Jhana and of fruition, repeated one day certain verses.

Psalms of the Sisters Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys 1909

"Gloriana" Overall, this song is fantastic, but there are parts of it that make me cringe, namely the verses.

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Now as to the origin of this, in the case of those sung whose tunes I happen to know, the long stanza was used as a kind of chorus, while the other stanzas were used as song "verses."

Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study Thomas Washington Talley

But I thought I would try it -- 'twould be different, anyhow, in this new kind of verses.

Dawn 1894

[Reads the 'verses.'] -- 'If love make me forsworn,' etc.

The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Delia Bacon 1835

For euer) He sheweth the cause, why Poetes were wont be had in such honor of noble men; that is, that by them their worthines & valor shold through theyr famous Posies be commended to al posterities. wherfore it is sayd, that Achilles had neuer bene so famous, as he is, but for Homeres immortal verses. which is the only aduantage, which he had of Hector.

Shepheardes Calendar 1579