noncommission of a violent act

Sing on, thou virgin soul, whose lossful gain / Thy love-sick parents have bewail'd in vain...

Even when the poetry of such poems does not employ the qaṣīda’s tripartite structure, …

One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains.[…]But out of sight is out of mind. And that[…]means that many old sewers have been neglected and are in dire need of repair.