light verse
Americannoun
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Osgood was a broadcaster who could write essays and light verse as well as report hard news, and he worked radio and television with equal facility.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 23, 2024
But before getting into the science, he offered a few lines of light verse, riffing on a 1950s novelty song:
From Washington Post ● Sep. 2, 2021
“Cats,” Andrew Lloyd Webber’s blockbuster spun from the light verse of T.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2019
Although I write light verse, I’m not a regular reader of what my family calls grown-up poetry.
From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2017
Was he first and foremost a dramatist, or an epic poet, or a writer of light verse, or an historian, or even perhaps a novelist?
From Landmarks in French Literature by Giles Lytton Strachey
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