Complacent ignorance and stupidity have buzzed freely about him as he sat unaided and alone in what Mr. Browning poetically depicts as the prolonged travail of a portentous mental birth; and, as we are led to imagine, much well-meant remonstrance and advice rebounded from his closed door.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
I don't 'come home,' as you so poetically put it; I'm there all the time.
"Helena Brett's Career"
Desmond Coke
There, that is the proper, youthful way of expressing it poetically, is it not?
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn