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Versify   Listen
verb
Versify  v. t.  
1.
To relate or describe in verse; to compose in verse. "I'll versify the truth, not poetize."
2.
To turn into verse; to render into metrical form; as, to versify the Psalms.


Versify  v. i.  (past & past part. versified; pres. part. versifying)  To make verses. "I'll versify in spite, and do my best."





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"Versify" Quotes from Famous Books



... all this is that minor poetry has its fashions, and that the butterfly Bayly could versify very successfully in the fashion of a time simpler and less pedantic than our own. On the whole, minor poetry for minor poetry, this artless singer, piping his native drawing-room notes, gave a great deal of perfectly harmless, ...
— Essays in Little • Andrew Lang
... nothing new; but one must have vent in some way. And this reminds me to explain to you why to three dear Christian friends I now and then send verses; they are my tears of joy or sorrow, and when I feel most deeply it is a relief to versify, and a pleasure to open my heart to those who feel as I do. I have been in print ever since I was sixteen years old, and admiration is an old story; I care very little for it; but I do crave and value sympathy with those who love Christ. And it is such a new thing to open my heart thus! I have ...
— The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss • George L. Prentiss
... brother, Moses.—The great fault of these elegiasts is, that they are in despair for griefs that give the sensible part of mankind very little pain. A lady loses her muff, her fan, or her lap-dog, and so the silly poet runs home to versify the disaster.' ...
— The Vicar of Wakefield • Oliver Goldsmith
... My other neighbour's children skate A wild Bacchantic rigadoon On rollers; nor does it abate Till dark; and then his babies cry What time I fain would versify. ...
— Tobogganing On Parnassus • Franklin P. Adams
... decline! The Muses nine No sisters are of mine. Must I repine Because I'm not divine, And may not versify some pretty story To prove to you my own immortal glory? Make no mistake. Accept; don't offer verses. Kisses ...
— The Hidden Children • Robert W. Chambers


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