O Caledonia! stern and wild,

Meet nurse for a poetic child!

Land of brown heath and shaggy wood;

Land of the mountain and the flood!

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832): Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto vi. Stanza 2.

For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes,

Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise,

Poetic fields encompass me around,

And still I seem to tread on classic ground.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719): A Letter from Italy.

Poetic Justice, with her lifted scale,

Where in nice balance truth with gold she weighs,

And solid pudding against empty praise.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Dunciad. Book i. Line 52.

Oh for a seat in some poetic nook,

Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!

Leigh Hunt (1784-1859): Politics and Poetics.

There is a pleasure in poetic pains

Which only poets know.

William Cowper (1731-1800): The Task. Book ii. The Timepiece. Line 285.

Those golden times

And those Arcadian scenes that Maro sings,

And Sidney, warbler of poetic prose.

William Cowper (1731-1800): The Task. Book iv. The Winter Evening. Line 514.