line of poetry
line of verse

That's why I mentioned the lines of poetry to you.

Sometimes it's a line of poetry that will in some way illuminate.

He couldn't remember where he'd seen that line of poetry, but it suited the town very well.

The word is in fact a message, a line of poetry.

He had walked up to Rahu, a line of poetry running through his head.

A line of poetry can put an end to a family problem, even trouble in a village.

The work contains over 9000 lines of poetry in Persian.

The answer popped into his head the way some lines of poetry occurred to him.

I met a man last night who told me he'd spent four years writing twenty-two lines of poetry that nobody can understand.

It was certainly from a poem - and he had hardly read a line of poetry since leaving college.