The examples of Lucretius Versifying philosophy in his Nature of Things, and that of Horace writing literary criticism in verse in his Art of Poetry, have been fruitful of mischief.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
This gave rise to the practice of Versifying the Psalms.
"The Story of Our Hymns"
Ernest Edwin Ryden
One man owes his ill-savored conceit to the flattery of a mistress; another owes his Versifying vanity to those who are paid to call him a great poet.
"The Lesser Bourgeoisie"
Honore de Balzac