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For the Tinker had rhymed, as the Prophet foretold, And a light was let in on the errors of old.

From The Glugs of Gosh by Dennis, C. J. (Clarence James)

The little poem of village living,—of home simpleness and frugal prettiness,—of that, the two first lines alone had rhymed!

From The Other Girls by Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)

They had read All I had rhymed of that monstrous thing Returned and yet unrequited love.

From The Wild Swans at Coole by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)

Keith did not become interested until the rice appeared and the father declared that no one could taste it until he or she had "rhymed over the rice."

From The Soul of a Child by Björkman, Edwin

I had rhymed in my youth and translated French verse, but until I wrote my one sonnet, poetry had been an untried field.

From An Autobiography by Spence, Catherine Helen