po'try

Cale was a great feller for rhyming -- makin 'po'try, you know.

The Mission of Janice Day Helen Beecher Long

"You see I'm not as familiar with po'try as you are, Mr. Dale."

Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale Harriet L. Smith

Now they're making new arrangements and editions of books and po'try all the time.

Half-Past Seven Stories Robert Gordon Anderson

"Don't you know the po'try piece Miss Bailey learned us about cows?"

Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day Various

They wanted to put 'n into po'try an' the church sarvice.

In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang

I've never waded through his po'try, but we learned about him in the U., '' said Babbitt.

Babbitt 1922

He was supposed to be "girly" and milk-soppish, because he never fought and seldom joined in the school sports, preferring to herd by himself in out of the way corners and read books – especially "po'try books."

Rainbow Valley Lucy Maud 1919

She and I had a habit, no doubt, a reprehensible one, of getting out together on the old side bench at school, and writing "po'try" on our slates, when the master fondly supposed we were sharpening our intellects on fractions.

The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career Lucy Maud 1917

He had lots of po'try in him -- not the stuff that rhymes, yer know, like 'The Psalm of Life' and so forth, but real po'try.

The Fortunate Youth 1914

And speakin 'of po'try, I reckon I got to go feed them pigs.

Sundown Slim Henry Herbert Knibbs 1909