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220 phrases and expressions related to "verse".

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  • A girl with kaleidoscope eyes (Beatles song lyric)
  • A little learning is a dangerous thing (from a poem by Alexander Pope)
  • A mighty maze of mystic magic rays (lyric of song used at the opening of television)
  • A narrow fellow in the grass (from a poem by Emily Dickinson)
  • A thing of beauty is a joy forever (from a poem by Keats)
  • All the lonely people, where do they all come from? (Beatles song lyric)
  • And miles to go before I sleep (from a poem by Robert Frost)
  • Baa baa black sheep have you any wool? (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Baby you can drive my car (Beatles song lyric)
  • Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer came down upon her head (The Beatles song lyric)
  • Beauty is truth, truth beauty; that is all (from a poem by Keats)
  • Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me (from a poem by Dickinson)
  • Beelzebub has the devil for a sideboard (misheard lyric from Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody)
  • Busy old fool, unruly sun (from a poem by John Donne)
  • But at my back I always hear (from a poem by Marvell)
  • Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker (from a poem by Nash)
  • Chapter and verse
  • Charge of the Light Brigade (British cavalry charge against Russian army in the Crimean War and title of a poem by Tennyson)
  • Clang clang clang went the trolley (Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland song lyric)
  • Come Into The Garden Maud (Tennyson poem and Victorian song)
  • Come together right now over me (Beatles song lyric)
  • Digging the dancing queen (ABBA lyric)
  • Ding dong bell Pussy's in the well (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Do not go gentle into that good night (from a poem by Dylan Thomas)
  • Doctor Foster went to Gloucester (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Doctor, doctor, give me the news, I've got a bad case of loving you (Robert Palmer song lyric)
  • Down came a blackbird and pecked off her nose (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes (Ben Jonson poem and Victorian song)
  • Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been (Beatles song lyric)
  • Everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Fish and finger pie (Beatles song lyric)
  • Five for silver (Magpie nursery rhyme)
  • Five, six, pick up sticks (line from nursery rhyme)
  • For the benefit of Mr.Kite there will be a show tonight on trampoline (Beatles song lyric)
  • For want of a nail the shoe was lost (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Four for a boy (Magpie nursery rhyme)
  • Friday night and the lights are low (ABBA lyric)
  • Georgie Porgie pudding and pie (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight (ABBA lyric)
  • Glow Little Glow-worm (children's nursery rhyme)
  • Goosey Goosey Gander where shall I wander (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Gunpowder treason and plot (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Half a pound of tuppenny rice, half a pound of treacle (line from nursery rhyme)
  • He put in his thumb and pulled out a plum (line from nursery rhyme)
  • He went to bed and bound his head with vinegar and brown paper (line from nursery rhyme)
  • He's a real nowhere man sitting in his nowhere land (The Beatles song lyric)
  • Helpless Helpless Helpless Helpless (Neil Young song lyric)
  • Hey Jude, Don't Make It Bad (The Beatles song lyric)
  • Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Hickory dickory dock the mouse ran up the clock (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Hope springs eternal in the human breast (from a poem by Alexander Pope)
  • How do I love thee? Let me count the ways (from a poem by Browning)
  • How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people? (Beatles song lyric)
  • Human kind cannot bear very much reality (from a poem by Eliot)
  • Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall (line from nursery rhyme)
  • I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together (Beatles song lyric)
  • I am the master of my fate (from a poem by Henley)
  • I am the walrus, goo goo goo joob (Beatles song lyric)
  • I believe in angels, something good in everything I see (ABBA lyric)
  • I don't wanna talk (ABBA lyric)
  • I grow old, I grow old, I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled (from a poem by Eliot)
  • I lit a fire, isn't it good, Norwegian wood? (Beatles song lyric)
  • I look at the world and I notice it's turning (The Beatles song lyric)
  • I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me (The Beatles song lyric)
  • I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree, Kilmer)
  • I wandered lonely as a cloud (from a poem by Wordsworth)
  • I'll buy you a diamond ring my friend if it makes you feel alright (The Beatles song lyric)
  • I'll send all my loving to you (Beatles song lyric)
  • I'm not half the man I used to be (The Beatles song lyric)
  • I've been brokenhearted, blue since the day we parted (ABBA lyric)
  • I've been cheated by you since I don't know when (ABBA lyric)
  • If I had to do the same again, I would my friend Fernando (ABBA lyric)
  • If you can keep your head when all about you (from a poem by Kipling)
  • If you change your mind, I'm the first in line (ABBA lyric)
  • If you're not busy being born, you're busy dying (Bob Dylan song lyric)
  • In Flanders fields the poppies blow (from a poem by McCrae)
  • In Penny Lane there is a barber showing photographs (Beatles song lyric)
  • In Xanadu did Kubla Khan (from a poem by Coleridge)
  • It was twenty years ago today Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play (Beatles song lyric)
  • It's been a hard day's night, and I'd been working like a dog (Beatles song lyric)
  • It's raining, it's pouring, the old man is snoring
  • Itsy Bitsy spider climbing up the spout, down came the rain and washed the spider out (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Jack Sprat could eat no fat (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Jack be nimble Jack be quick (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Jack fell down and broke his crown (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Jack jump over the candlestick (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Knowing me, knowing you, it's the best I can do (ABBA lyric)
  • Lady Madonna, children at your feet (Beatles song lyric)
  • Let me take you down, cos I'm going to Strawberry Fields (Beatles song lyric)
  • Little Bo peep has lost her sheep (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Little Boy Blue come blow your horn (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Little Jack Horner sat in a corner (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet eating her curds and whey (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Little Robin Red breast sat upon a tree (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Little Tommy Tucker sings for his supper (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Living is easy with eyes closed (Beatles song lyric)
  • London bridge is falling down (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair (from a poem by Shelley)
  • Love is all you need (The Beatles song lyric)
  • Love, love me do, you know I love you (Beatles song lyric)
  • Lucy Locket lost her pocket (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Mamma mia, here I go again (ABBA lyric)
  • Mary Mary quite contrary, how does your garden grow (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Mary had a little lamb its fleece was white as snow (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Money can't buy you love (Beatles song lyric)
  • Money, money, money (ABBA lyric)
  • Mother Superior jumped the gun (Beatles song lyric)
  • My heart went boom when I crossed that room (Beatles song lyric)
  • My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (from a poem by Shakespeare)
  • My my, I could never let you go (ABBA lyric)
  • Never scratches (Lyric Records advertising slogan)
  • Not with a bang but a whimper (from a poem by Eliot)
  • Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about (The Beatles song lyric)
  • Old King Cole was a merry old soul, and a merry old soul was he (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor doggie a bone (line from nursery rhyme)
  • One for sorrow (Magpie nursery rhyme)
  • One two buckle my shoe (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Oranges and lemons say the bells of Saint Clements (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Pat a cake, Pat a cake, baker's man, bake me a cake as fast as you can (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes (Beatles song lyric)
  • Peter Peter pumpkin eater (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Poetry In Motion (Johnny Tillotson song)
  • Polly put the kettle on, we'll all have tea (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Pussycat pussycat, where have you been? (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Rain, rain go away, come again another day (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Remember remember the fifth of November (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Reverse engineering
  • Rhyme nor reason
  • Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross to see a fine lady upon a white horse (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Ring aring of roses, a pocketful of posies, atishoo, atishoo, all fall down (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Rock a bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Round and round the garden like a teddy bear (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness (from a poem by Keats)
  • See how they run like pigs from a gun (The Beatles song lyric)
  • See that girl, watch that scene (ABBA lyric)
  • Seesaw Margery Daw Johnny shall have a new master (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Semolina pilchard climbing up the Eiffel Tower (Beatles song lyric)
  • Seven for a secret, never to be told (Magpie nursery rhyme)
  • Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (from a poem by Shakespeare)
  • She's got a ticket to ride but she don't care (Beatles song lyric)
  • Simple Simon met a pieman going to the fair (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Sing a song of sixpence a pocket full of rye (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Six for gold (Magpie nursery rhyme)
  • Sticks and snails and puppy dog's tails that's what little boys are made of (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone (from a poem by Auden)
  • Sugar and spice and all things nice that's what little girls are made of (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Take a chance on me (ABBA lyric)
  • Tangerine trees and marmalade skies (Beatles song lyric)
  • Ten summersets he'll undertake on solid ground (Beatles song lyric)
  • Thank you for the music, the songs I'm singing (ABBA lyric)
  • The Big Ship Sails on The Ally-Ally-Oh (line from nursery rhyme)
  • The Grand old Duke of York he had ten thousand men (line from nursery rhyme)
  • The North wind doth blow and we shall have snow (line from nursery rhyme)
  • The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat (line from nursery rhyme)
  • The Queen of Hearts she made some tarts all on a summer's day (line from nursery rhyme)
  • The Road Not Taken (Robert Frost poem)
  • The act you've known for all these years (Beatles song lyric)
  • The answer my friend is blowing in the wind (Bob Dylan song lyric)
  • The child is father of the man (from a poem by Wordsworth)
  • The cow jumped over the moon (line from nursery rhyme)
  • The dish ran away with the spoon (line from nursery rhyme)
  • The house that Jack built (line from nursery rhyme)
  • The king was in his counting house counting out his money (line from nursery rhyme)
  • The long and winding road that leads to your door (Beatles song lyric)
  • The man with the foolish grin is keeping perfectly still (The Beatles song lyric)
  • The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n (from a poem by Milton)
  • The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on (from a poem by Fitzgerald)
  • The old lie: Dulce et Decorum Est (from a poem by Owen)
  • The proper study of mankind is man (from a poem by Alexander Pope)
  • The queen was in the parlour eating bread and honey (line from nursery rhyme)
  • The sheep's in the meadow the cow's in the corn (line from nursery rhyme)
  • The winner takes it all, the loser standing small (ABBA lyric)
  • There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile (line from nursery rhyme)
  • There was an old woman who lived in a shoe (line from nursery rhyme)
  • There will be an answer, let it be (The Beatles song lyric)
  • There's not a soul out there, no one to hear my prayer (ABBA lyric)
  • There's nothing you can do that can't be done (The Beatles song lyric)
  • They also serve who only stand and wait (from a poem by Milton)
  • They danced by the light of the moon (line from nursery rhyme)
  • They dined on mince, and slices of quince (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold (from a poem by Yeats)
  • This little piggy had roast beef, this little piggy had none (line from nursery rhyme)
  • This little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed at home (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Three blind mice, see how they run (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Three for a girl (Magpie nursery rhyme)
  • Three, four, knock at the door (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all (from a poem by Tennyson)
  • To err is human; to forgive, divine (from a poem by Alexander Pope)
  • To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield (from a poem by Tennyson)
  • Tom Tom the pipers son stole a pig and away he ran (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Tread softly because you tread on my dreams (from a poem by Yeats)
  • Twinkle twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Two for joy (Magpie nursery rhyme)
  • Two little dicky birds sitting on a wall, one named Peter, one named Paul (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Up above the world so high , like a diamond in the sky (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Upstairs, downstairs and in my lady's chamber (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door (Beatles song lyric)
  • Waterloo, couldn't escape if I wanted to (ABBA lyric)
  • We all live in a yellow submarine (Beatles song lyric)
  • Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town, upstairs and downstairs in his nightgown (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Well, she was just seventeen you know what I mean (The Beatles song lyric)
  • What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare (from a poem by Davies)
  • What would you think if I sang out of tune (The Beatles song lyric)
  • When I am an old woman I shall wear purple (from a poem by Joseph)
  • When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me (Beatles song lyric)
  • When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes (from a sonnet by Shakespeare)
  • When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, and down will come baby, cradle and all (line from nursery rhyme)
  • When they were up, they were up (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies (Beatles song lyric)
  • Whisper words of wisdom, let it be (The Beatles song lyric)
  • Who can live without it, I ask in all honesty? (ABBA lyric)
  • Who killed Cock Robin (line from nursery rhyme)
  • With love from me to you (Beatles song lyric)
  • With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes she shall have music wherever she goes (line from nursery rhyme)
  • With silver bells and cockle shells and pretty maids all in a row (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye (Beatles song lyric)
  • You keep all your money in a big brown bag inside a zoo (Beatles song lyric)
  • Young and sweet, only seventeen (ABBA lyric)