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
A master of light verse, he can also be very funny: “Goddess of bossy underlings, Normality!”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 29, 2022
For his “Cats,” Lloyd Webber mostly set Eliot’s light verse to music.
From New York Times ● Dec. 18, 2019
At first glance, this might look like light verse, but it's deep and rich, a kind of zen koan that is also a meditation on aging and, to me at least, longevity in marriage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2018
Of the periodical too, if not entirely, was Richard Harris Barham, "Thomas Ingoldsby," the author of the most popular book of light verse that ever issued from the press.
From A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by George Saintsbury
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