Category:Poem

Po"em, n. Etym: [l. poëma, gr. poëme.]

1. A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain Measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by Imagination and poetic diction; -- contradistinguished from prose; As, the poems of homer or of milton.

2. A composition, not in verse, of which the language is highly Imaginative or impassioned; as, a prose poem; the poems of ossian.