English citations of poëm

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    • 1747, Josiah Relph, A Miscellany of Poems: Consisting of Original Poems, Translations Pastorals in the Cumberland Dialect...[1], page xvi:
      We cannot indeed recommend these Poëms as any standard of polite taste and elevated genius, nor as perfect patterns for imitation.
    • 1788: John Gilborne, The Triumphant Return, a Poëm: In Latin and English: Humbly Dedicated to…, Title
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    • 1815: François-René de Chateaubriand, Souvenirs d’Italie, d’Angleterre et d’Amérique: suivis de Morceaux divers de morale et de littérature, page 161
      “I have endeavoured,” dit-il, “to imitate Spencer in the measure of his verse and in the harmony, simplicity and variety of his composition.— This measure pleases my ear and seems from its Gothic structure and original, to bear some relation to the subject and spirit of the poëm.”
    • 1824: Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren, Historische Werke von Arnold Herrmann Ludwig Heeren, page vii
      The Mega Duta or Cloud Messenger, a poëm in the Sanscrit language by Calidasa; translated into English verses with notes and illustrations by Horace Haymon Wilson, Calcutta 1813. 4to. 120 ℭ.
    • 1851: Jacques Nicolas Paillot de Montabert, Traité complet de la peinture, page 512
      Harte (Walter). — Essay on painting; in his poëms on several occasions. London. 1727. in-8°.
    • 1864: Heinrich Joseph Wetzer, Benedikt Welte, Isidore Goschler, and Johann Goschler, Dictionnaire encyclopédique de la théologie catholique, page 309
      6. John Douglass, bishop of Centurio and vicar apostolic in the London district, 1794, in-4°.
      7. The Battle of Bangor, satirical poëm (la bataille de Bangor, ou le triomphe de l’Église).
      8. The first Eklog of Virgil translated into skottic vers.
    • 1879: Provinciaal Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen in Noord-Brabant Bibliotheek, Catalogus der boekerij, page 890 (Gebroeders Muller)
      895 Milton, J. Works, containing : paradise lost, a poëm, and paradise regained, Simson agonistes and poëms