light verse
Americannoun
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Lovely flourishes remind us of Updike’s talent for light verse.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
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
I last saw “Cats,” Lloyd Webber’s song-cycle adaptation of T. S. Eliot’s bizarro light verse collection, “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats,” in the mid-to-late 1980s at the Santa Monica Civic Center.
From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2020
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
The most charming of all these charming poems—the perfection of the light verse of a serious poet—is the letter from England to his youngest boy, speculating on his Italian pursuits.
From A Wanderer in Florence by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)
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