Verses in example sentence

In a word, he gained an influence over my mind, and overcame my resolutions with I know not what trinkets and jewels he gave me; but it was some verses I heard him singing one night from a grating that opened on the street where he lived, that, more than anything else, made me give way and led to my fall; and if I remember rightly they ran thus:From that sweet enemy of mineMy bleeding heart hath had its wound;And to increase the pain I'm boundTo suffer and to make no sign.

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"Some of these verses are definite in meaning," it says, "and others are ambiguous."

I'd like to end with a few verses of what I wrote at my father's cremation.

I've described it as a kind of projectile vomiting, a torrent of ideas, of characters, of voices, of verses, couplets, entire songs almost formed whole, materialized in front of me as if they'd been bottled up inside me for many, many years.

He recites verses from the Koran, begging his God to live.

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