The deaths of children and young adults were particular objects of inspiration to the obituary poets, who memorialized them with sentimental verse.

I picked up some prettied gift ribbons in a fire-engine red and a get-well card with a sentimental verse.

You couldn't blame her for writing sentimental verse at that age.

"I concentrate on fine art and very sentimental verses," Mrs. Gellineau said.

Starry-eyed sentimental verses, which today seem outlandish, are reprinted on a handout sheet.

The sentimental verse goes: I have been faithful to thee, Cynara, in my fashion.

Determined to write her way off welfare, Ms. Miles turned to written-to-order sentimental verse three years ago.

When he wasn't painting, he was writing sentimental verse.

Rolling Stone stated that "both rappers deliver sentimental verses, but Ocean carries most of the emotional weight here."

My services were much in demand, not only for sentimental verses, but for expressions of anger and rather cruel satire.