Chapter VI · Chapter 6

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

plural of “addition” — a component that is added to something to improve it

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

move forward, also in the metaphorical sense

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

call attention to

From this reading When the publishers advertise the initial appearance of a poet, we simply say _Another!_ The versifiers and their friends who study them through a magnifying glass may ultimately force us to classify the songsters into wild poets, gamy poets, barnyard poets, poets that hunt and are hunted.

later than; following

From this reading The country fields and the city streets are full of singing birds; and after a few more springs have awakened the earth, it may become as impossible to distinguish the note of a new imagist as the note of an individual robin.

a native or inhabitant of the United States

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound

From this reading The country fields and the city streets are full of singing birds; and after a few more springs have awakened the earth, it may become as impossible to distinguish the note of a new imagist as the note of an individual robin.

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

one more of the same kind, or a different one

From this reading When the publishers advertise the initial appearance of a poet, we simply say _Another!_ The versifiers and their friends who study them through a magnifying glass may ultimately force us to classify the songsters into wild poets, gamy poets, barnyard poets, poets that hunt and are hunted.

outward or visible aspect of a person or thing

From this reading When the publishers advertise the initial appearance of a poet, we simply say _Another!_ The versifiers and their friends who study them through a magnifying glass may ultimately force us to classify the songsters into wild poets, gamy poets, barnyard poets, poets that hunt and are hunted.

the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun

From this reading The country fields and the city streets are full of singing birds; and after a few more springs have awakened the earth, it may become as impossible to distinguish the note of a new imagist as the note of an individual robin.

a city in northern Texas between Dallas and Fort Worth

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

at the same time that; because; in the way that

From this reading The country fields and the city streets are full of singing birds; and after a few more springs have awakened the earth, it may become as impossible to distinguish the note of a new imagist as the note of an individual robin.

aroused or activated

From this reading The country fields and the city streets are full of singing birds; and after a few more springs have awakened the earth, it may become as impossible to distinguish the note of a new imagist as the note of an individual robin.

a yard adjoining a barn

From this reading When the publishers advertise the initial appearance of a poet, we simply say _Another!_ The versifiers and their friends who study them through a magnifying glass may ultimately force us to classify the songsters into wild poets, gamy poets, barnyard poets, poets that hunt and are hunted.

enter or assume a certain state or condition

From this reading The country fields and the city streets are full of singing birds; and after a few more springs have awakened the earth, it may become as impossible to distinguish the note of a new imagist as the note of an individual robin.

according with custom or propriety

From this reading To compel public recognition by a fresh volume of poems is becoming increasingly difficult.

plural of “bird” — warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings

From this reading The country fields and the city streets are full of singing birds; and after a few more springs have awakened the earth, it may become as impossible to distinguish the note of a new imagist as the note of an individual robin.

English explorer who with John Speke was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika (1821-1890)

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before

From this reading But in the last decade of the last century, poets other than migratory, poets who were winter residents, were sufficiently uncommon.

showing who or what does the action

From this reading To compel public recognition by a fresh volume of poems is becoming increasingly difficult.

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From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

a period of 100 years

From this reading But in the last decade of the last century, poets other than migratory, poets who were winter residents, were sufficiently uncommon.

a young person of either sex

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts

From this reading The country fields and the city streets are full of singing birds; and after a few more springs have awakened the earth, it may become as impossible to distinguish the note of a new imagist as the note of an individual robin.

arrange or order by classes or categories

From this reading When the publishers advertise the initial appearance of a poet, we simply say _Another!_ The versifiers and their friends who study them through a magnifying glass may ultimately force us to classify the songsters into wild poets, gamy poets, barnyard poets, poets that hunt and are hunted.

belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

force somebody to do something

From this reading To compel public recognition by a fresh volume of poems is becoming increasingly difficult.

United States journalist (born in England in 1908)

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

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From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

a politically organized body of people under a single government

From this reading The country fields and the city streets are full of singing birds; and after a few more springs have awakened the earth, it may become as impossible to distinguish the note of a new imagist as the note of an individual robin.

the event of dying or departure from life

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

a period of 10 years

From this reading But in the last decade of the last century, poets other than migratory, poets who were winter residents, were sufficiently uncommon.

not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure

From this reading To compel public recognition by a fresh volume of poems is becoming increasingly difficult.

mark as different

From this reading The country fields and the city streets are full of singing birds; and after a few more springs have awakened the earth, it may become as impossible to distinguish the note of a new imagist as the note of an individual robin.

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From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

(slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

a fat-soluble vitamin that is essential for normal reproduction; an important antioxidant that neutralizes free radicals in the body

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on

From this reading The country fields and the city streets are full of singing birds; and after a few more springs have awakened the earth, it may become as impossible to distinguish the note of a new imagist as the note of an individual robin.

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From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

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From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

king of Northumbria who was converted to Christianity (585-633)

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

widely known and esteemed

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by “a”; a small but indefinite number

From this reading The country fields and the city streets are full of singing birds; and after a few more springs have awakened the earth, it may become as impossible to distinguish the note of a new imagist as the note of an individual robin.

United States comedian and film actor (1880-1946)

From this reading The country fields and the city streets are full of singing birds; and after a few more springs have awakened the earth, it may become as impossible to distinguish the note of a new imagist as the note of an individual robin.

a powerful effect or influence

From this reading When the publishers advertise the initial appearance of a poet, we simply say _Another!_ The versifiers and their friends who study them through a magnifying glass may ultimately force us to classify the songsters into wild poets, gamy poets, barnyard poets, poets that hunt and are hunted.

a person who goes before or announces the coming of another

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

plural of “forerunner” — a person who goes before or announces the coming of another

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

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From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

recently made, produced, or harvested

From this reading To compel public recognition by a fresh volume of poems is becoming increasingly difficult.

plural of “friend” — a person you know well and regard with affection and trust

From this reading When the publishers advertise the initial appearance of a poet, we simply say _Another!_ The versifiers and their friends who study them through a magnifying glass may ultimately force us to classify the songsters into wild poets, gamy poets, barnyard poets, poets that hunt and are hunted.

containing as much or as many as is possible or normal

From this reading The country fields and the city streets are full of singing birds; and after a few more springs have awakened the earth, it may become as impossible to distinguish the note of a new imagist as the note of an individual robin.

suggestive of sexual impropriety

From this reading When the publishers advertise the initial appearance of a poet, we simply say _Another!_ The versifiers and their friends who study them through a magnifying glass may ultimately force us to classify the songsters into wild poets, gamy poets, barnyard poets, poets that hunt and are hunted.

Christian martyr; patron saint of England; hero of the legend of Saint George and the Dragon in which he slew a dragon and saved a princess (?-303)

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

a brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure

From this reading When the publishers advertise the initial appearance of a poet, we simply say _Another!_ The versifiers and their friends who study them through a magnifying glass may ultimately force us to classify the songsters into wild poets, gamy poets, barnyard poets, poets that hunt and are hunted.

(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

a nonmetallic univalent element that is normally a colorless and odorless highly flammable diatomic gas; the simplest and lightest and most abundant element in the universe

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses

From this reading The country fields and the city streets are full of singing birds; and after a few more springs have awakened the earth, it may become as impossible to distinguish the note of a new imagist as the note of an individual robin.

having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

a unit of inductance in which an induced electromotive force of one volt is produced when the current is varied at the rate of one ampere per second

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)

From this reading When the publishers advertise the initial appearance of a poet, we simply say _Another!_ The versifiers and their friends who study them through a magnifying glass may ultimately force us to classify the songsters into wild poets, gamy poets, barnyard poets, poets that hunt and are hunted.

reflecting the fear or terror of one who is hunted

From this reading When the publishers advertise the initial appearance of a poet, we simply say _Another!_ The versifiers and their friends who study them through a magnifying glass may ultimately force us to classify the songsters into wild poets, gamy poets, barnyard poets, poets that hunt and are hunted.

(philosophy) the philosophical theory that ideas are the only reality

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading The country fields and the city streets are full of singing birds; and after a few more springs have awakened the earth, it may become as impossible to distinguish the note of a new imagist as the note of an individual robin.

not capable of occurring or being accomplished or dealt with

From this reading The country fields and the city streets are full of singing birds; and after a few more springs have awakened the earth, it may become as impossible to distinguish the note of a new imagist as the note of an individual robin.

inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

advancing in amount or intensity

From this reading To compel public recognition by a fresh volume of poems is becoming increasingly difficult.

being or characteristic of a single thing or person

From this reading The country fields and the city streets are full of singing birds; and after a few more springs have awakened the earth, it may become as impossible to distinguish the note of a new imagist as the note of an individual robin.

the first letter of a word (especially a person's name)

From this reading When the publishers advertise the initial appearance of a poet, we simply say _Another!_ The versifiers and their friends who study them through a magnifying glass may ultimately force us to classify the songsters into wild poets, gamy poets, barnyard poets, poets that hunt and are hunted.

of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

moving to the inside of something

From this reading When the publishers advertise the initial appearance of a poet, we simply say _Another!_ The versifiers and their friends who study them through a magnifying glass may ultimately force us to classify the songsters into wild poets, gamy poets, barnyard poets, poets that hunt and are hunted.

the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading To compel public recognition by a fresh volume of poems is becoming increasingly difficult.

a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned

From this reading The country fields and the city streets are full of singing birds; and after a few more springs have awakened the earth, it may become as impossible to distinguish the note of a new imagist as the note of an individual robin.

English writer and lexicographer (1709-1784)

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

the basic unit of thermodynamic temperature adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

immediately past

From this reading But in the last decade of the last century, poets other than migratory, poets who were winter residents, were sufficiently uncommon.

being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

creative writing of recognized artistic value

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

something that is lost

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards)

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

-ing form of “magnify” — increase in size, volume or significance

From this reading When the publishers advertise the initial appearance of a poet, we simply say _Another!_ The versifiers and their friends who study them through a magnifying glass may ultimately force us to classify the songsters into wild poets, gamy poets, barnyard poets, poets that hunt and are hunted.

the trait of being manly; having the characteristics of an adult male

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

an artist of consummate skill

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

used to say something is possible, or to give permission

From this reading The country fields and the city streets are full of singing birds; and after a few more springs have awakened the earth, it may become as impossible to distinguish the note of a new imagist as the note of an individual robin.

used of animals that move seasonally

From this reading But in the last decade of the last century, poets other than migratory, poets who were winter residents, were sufficiently uncommon.

belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

United States tennis player who dominated women's tennis in the 1920s and 1930s (1905-1998)

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behavior and character based on those principles

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

(comparative of “much” used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree

From this reading The country fields and the city streets are full of singing birds; and after a few more springs have awakened the earth, it may become as impossible to distinguish the note of a new imagist as the note of an individual robin.

not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered

From this reading The country fields and the city streets are full of singing birds; and after a few more springs have awakened the earth, it may become as impossible to distinguish the note of a new imagist as the note of an individual robin.

a brief written record

From this reading The country fields and the city streets are full of singing birds; and after a few more springs have awakened the earth, it may become as impossible to distinguish the note of a new imagist as the note of an individual robin.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

the optimistic feeling that all is going to turn out well

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied

From this reading But in the last decade of the last century, poets other than migratory, poets who were winter residents, were sufficiently uncommon.

belonging to the speaker and others

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

a multivalent nonmetallic element of the nitrogen family that occurs commonly in inorganic phosphate rocks and as organic phosphates in all living cells; is highly reactive and occurs in several allotropic forms

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

educator who founded the first kindergarten in the United States (1804-1894)

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

an Italian poet famous for love lyrics (1304-1374)

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

plural of “poem” — a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)

From this reading When the publishers advertise the initial appearance of a poet, we simply say _Another!_ The versifiers and their friends who study them through a magnifying glass may ultimately force us to classify the songsters into wild poets, gamy poets, barnyard poets, poets that hunt and are hunted.

literature in metrical form

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

plural of “poet” — a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)

From this reading When the publishers advertise the initial appearance of a poet, we simply say _Another!_ The versifiers and their friends who study them through a magnifying glass may ultimately force us to classify the songsters into wild poets, gamy poets, barnyard poets, poets that hunt and are hunted.

the act or process of producing something

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

intellectually productive

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

people in general considered as a whole

From this reading To compel public recognition by a fresh volume of poems is becoming increasingly difficult.

plural of “publisher” — a firm in the publishing business

From this reading When the publishers advertise the initial appearance of a poet, we simply say _Another!_ The versifiers and their friends who study them through a magnifying glass may ultimately force us to classify the songsters into wild poets, gamy poets, barnyard poets, poets that hunt and are hunted.

plural of “quality” — an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged

From this reading To compel public recognition by a fresh volume of poems is becoming increasingly difficult.

plural of “resident” — someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there

From this reading But in the last decade of the last century, poets other than migratory, poets who were winter residents, were sufficiently uncommon.

grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

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From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

United States parliamentary authority and author (in 1876) of Robert's Rules of Order (1837-1923)

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

small Old World songbird with a reddish breast

From this reading The country fields and the city streets are full of singing birds; and after a few more springs have awakened the earth, it may become as impossible to distinguish the note of a new imagist as the note of an individual robin.

English chemist noted for his studies of molecular structures in plants (1886-1975)

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

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From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

express in words

From this reading When the publishers advertise the initial appearance of a poet, we simply say _Another!_ The versifiers and their friends who study them through a magnifying glass may ultimately force us to classify the songsters into wild poets, gamy poets, barnyard poets, poets that hunt and are hunted.

a general conscious awareness

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

and nothing more

From this reading When the publishers advertise the initial appearance of a poet, we simply say _Another!_ The versifiers and their friends who study them through a magnifying glass may ultimately force us to classify the songsters into wild poets, gamy poets, barnyard poets, poets that hunt and are hunted.

the act of singing vocal music

From this reading The country fields and the city streets are full of singing birds; and after a few more springs have awakened the earth, it may become as impossible to distinguish the note of a new imagist as the note of an individual robin.

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From this reading When the publishers advertise the initial appearance of a poet, we simply say _Another!_ The versifiers and their friends who study them through a magnifying glass may ultimately force us to classify the songsters into wild poets, gamy poets, barnyard poets, poets that hunt and are hunted.

a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

plural of “spring” — the season of growth

From this reading The country fields and the city streets are full of singing birds; and after a few more springs have awakened the earth, it may become as impossible to distinguish the note of a new imagist as the note of an individual robin.

plural of “street” — a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings

From this reading The country fields and the city streets are full of singing birds; and after a few more springs have awakened the earth, it may become as impossible to distinguish the note of a new imagist as the note of an individual robin.

a detailed critical inspection

From this reading When the publishers advertise the initial appearance of a poet, we simply say _Another!_ The versifiers and their friends who study them through a magnifying glass may ultimately force us to classify the songsters into wild poets, gamy poets, barnyard poets, poets that hunt and are hunted.

to a sufficient degree

From this reading But in the last decade of the last century, poets other than migratory, poets who were winter residents, were sufficiently uncommon.

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From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

used to introduce the second part of a comparison

From this reading But in the last decade of the last century, poets other than migratory, poets who were winter residents, were sufficiently uncommon.

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading When the publishers advertise the initial appearance of a poet, we simply say _Another!_ The versifiers and their friends who study them through a magnifying glass may ultimately force us to classify the songsters into wild poets, gamy poets, barnyard poets, poets that hunt and are hunted.

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

belonging to the people or things already mentioned

From this reading When the publishers advertise the initial appearance of a poet, we simply say _Another!_ The versifiers and their friends who study them through a magnifying glass may ultimately force us to classify the songsters into wild poets, gamy poets, barnyard poets, poets that hunt and are hunted.

the people or things already mentioned, as the object

From this reading When the publishers advertise the initial appearance of a poet, we simply say _Another!_ The versifiers and their friends who study them through a magnifying glass may ultimately force us to classify the songsters into wild poets, gamy poets, barnyard poets, poets that hunt and are hunted.

United States clockmaker who introduced mass production (1785-1859)

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

from one end or side of something to the other

From this reading When the publishers advertise the initial appearance of a poet, we simply say _Another!_ The versifiers and their friends who study them through a magnifying glass may ultimately force us to classify the songsters into wild poets, gamy poets, barnyard poets, poets that hunt and are hunted.

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

a person who translates written messages from one language to another

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

as the end result of a succession or process

From this reading When the publishers advertise the initial appearance of a poet, we simply say _Another!_ The versifiers and their friends who study them through a magnifying glass may ultimately force us to classify the songsters into wild poets, gamy poets, barnyard poets, poets that hunt and are hunted.

not common or ordinarily encountered; unusually great in amount or remarkable in character or kind

From this reading But in the last decade of the last century, poets other than migratory, poets who were winter residents, were sufficiently uncommon.

the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

the speaker and others, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading When the publishers advertise the initial appearance of a poet, we simply say _Another!_ The versifiers and their friends who study them through a magnifying glass may ultimately force us to classify the songsters into wild poets, gamy poets, barnyard poets, poets that hunt and are hunted.

any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

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From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

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From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

having a wide variety of skills

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

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From this reading When the publishers advertise the initial appearance of a poet, we simply say _Another!_ The versifiers and their friends who study them through a magnifying glass may ultimately force us to classify the songsters into wild poets, gamy poets, barnyard poets, poets that hunt and are hunted.

plural of “veteran” — a serviceman who has seen considerable active service

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

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From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object

From this reading To compel public recognition by a fresh volume of poems is becoming increasingly difficult.

the speaker together with one or more other people

From this reading When the publishers advertise the initial appearance of a poet, we simply say _Another!_ The versifiers and their friends who study them through a magnifying glass may ultimately force us to classify the songsters into wild poets, gamy poets, barnyard poets, poets that hunt and are hunted.

the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun

From this reading But in the last decade of the last century, poets other than migratory, poets who were winter residents, were sufficiently uncommon.

Scottish archaeologist (1890-1976)

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

at the time that

From this reading When the publishers advertise the initial appearance of a poet, we simply say _Another!_ The versifiers and their friends who study them through a magnifying glass may ultimately force us to classify the songsters into wild poets, gamy poets, barnyard poets, poets that hunt and are hunted.

the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

which person or people

From this reading When the publishers advertise the initial appearance of a poet, we simply say _Another!_ The versifiers and their friends who study them through a magnifying glass may ultimately force us to classify the songsters into wild poets, gamy poets, barnyard poets, poets that hunt and are hunted.

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From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

marked by extreme lack of restraint or control

From this reading When the publishers advertise the initial appearance of a poet, we simply say _Another!_ The versifiers and their friends who study them through a magnifying glass may ultimately force us to classify the songsters into wild poets, gamy poets, barnyard poets, poets that hunt and are hunted.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

the coldest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox

From this reading But in the last decade of the last century, poets other than migratory, poets who were winter residents, were sufficiently uncommon.

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From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.

(used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth

From this reading AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson--his moral idealism--Richard Burton--his healthy optimism--his growth--Edwin Markham and his famous poem--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--her additions to our language--Edmund Vance Cooke--Edith M. Thomas--Henry van Dyke--George E. Woodberry--his spiritual and ethereal quality--William Dudley Foulke--translator of Petrarch--the late H. K. Vielé--his whimsicality--Cale Young Rice--his prolific production--his versatility--Josephine P. Peabody--_Sursum Corda_--her child poems--Edwin Arlington Robinson--a forerunner of the modern advance--his manliness and common sense--intellectual qualities.