light verse
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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
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
“Often the humor in light verse comes from using an odd or unexpected word.”
From New York Times ● May 7, 2016
He published, as early as 1857, a volume of light verse entitled London Lyrics, which, with the work of Prior, Praed, and Mr. Austin Dobson, stands at the head of its kind in English.
From A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by George Saintsbury
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