poëm

poëm (plural poëms)

1. (rare or archaic) Alternative spelling of poem
   • 1747, Josiah Relph, A Miscellany of Poems: Consisting of Original Poems, Translations Pastorals in the Cumberland Dialect...‎, page xvi:

     We cannot indeed recommend these Poëms as any standard of polite taste and elevated genius, nor as perfect patterns for imitation.

   • 1788, John Gilborne, The Triumphant Return, a Poëm: In Latin and English: Humbly Dedicated to…, Title:

     [Title]

   • 1851, Jacques Nicolas Paillot de Montabert, Traité complet de la peinture, page 512:

     Harte (Walter). — Essay on painting; in his poëms on several occasions. London. 1727. in-8°.

   • 1864, Heinrich Joseph Wetzer, Benedikt Welte, Isidore Goschler, Johann Goschler, Dictionnaire encyclopédique de la théologie catholique, page 309:

     6. John Douglass, bishop of Centurio and vicar apostolic in the London district, 1794, in-4°.
     
     7. The Battle of Bangor, satirical poëm (la bataille de Bangor, ou le triomphe de l’Église).
     
     8. The first Eklog of Virgil translated into skottic vers.

   • 1879: Provinciaal Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen in Noord-Brabant Bibliotheek, Catalogus der boekerij, page 890 (Gebroeders Muller)

     895 Milton, J. Works, containing : paradise lost, a poëm, and paradise regained, Simson agonistes and poëms…

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• mope, pome