Meanings of compose verses in English

He early began to compose verses and showed an intense love of poetry.

Thus, if you compose verses, let not the fox's concealed intentions impose upon you.

I will go and compose verses till noon.

I compose verses while mending my clothes.

He often talked of commissioning a poet to compose verses about that wonderful coming day at Dipwell.

A few minutes later, Tom saw him sit down on a bench to compose verses as industriously as ever.

She had determined to keep her word to learn to speak, write, and compose verses in the Aeolian dialect of the Greek tongue.

I was only a reciter of ancient inventions; and if I chanced to compose verses, they were songs of love, not secrets of philosophy.

In his thirteenth year he essayed to compose verses, and at the age of twenty became a contributor of poetical stanzas to the provincial journals.

In his youth he composed verses, and continued to produce respectable poetry.

In my youth I composed verses which were really not bad.

She was very far from composing verses on this May afternoon.

From his youth he has cherished an enthusiastic love of poetry, and composed verses.

Corneille composes verses a hundred times finer than mine, but no one regards him.

I am composing verses on him who eats it.

She composed verses about Sir Adge and Maid Else, about birds and flowers and sad things.