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
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
Volume two reprints the light verse and translations.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 2015
Rodolphe writes light verse for the "largest circulations."
From Nights in London by Thomas Burke
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