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
“Cats,” Andrew Lloyd Webber’s blockbuster spun from the light verse of T.S.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2019
For his “Cats,” Lloyd Webber mostly set Eliot’s light verse to music.
From New York Times • Dec. 18, 2019
Volume two reprints the light verse and translations.
From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2015
Here in nearly 900 pages are specimens of light verse from Chaucer to Chesterton.
From When Winter Comes to Main Street by Overton, Grant Martin
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