Applied to women, passing fair became a poetic expression of admiration for a damsel's beauty.
Her works on wildflowers and birds were notable for their combination of scientific facts with poetic expression.
It is very unusual to find a play that devotes itself to such intense poetic expression.
This finds its most poetic expression in portraits of individual characters and, by extension, the context of their lives.
To the Romantics, the moment of creation was the most important in poetic expression and could not be repeated once it passed.
Fordyce was not usually given to such poetic expression.
Throughout his adult life, Anderson has been drawn to poetic expression.
"I believe reincarnation is just a poetic expression of what collective memory really is," says one.
In late medieval times rímur became the most popular form of poetic expression.
We might hope for a freer vibrancy in the tone and a broader palette of poetic expression.