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poesy

[poh-uh-see, -zee] / ˈpoʊ ə si, -zi /


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She eventually expanded into jewelry, offering oval filigree lockets, enamel vermeil zodiac charms and stackable gold bands that riff on 15th-century poesy rings.

From New York Times Mar. 25, 2022

The White Album’s tonal and visual proximities begin with The Pure and the Damned, the music video from Oneohtrix Point Never featuring Iggy Pop’s eerie poesy, from the 2017 film Good Time.

From The Guardian Dec. 11, 2018

Costner delivers Dutton’s threats, pleas, and cowboy poesy in a rasp.

From The New Yorker Jun. 20, 2018

To learn grammar was to appreciate the book’s poesy, which in turn was to break open a once-inaccessible text.

From Salon Jun. 3, 2017

He could, indeed, comprehend the ascetic grandeur of a Pascal or the rolling eloquence of a Bossuet, but he was distrustful of that fervid breath of poesy that comes and goes unsummoned and uncontrolled.

From Shelburne Essays, Third Series by Paul Elmer More

And, indeed, are not all poesies but various notes of that mighty diapason of Thought and Feeling, that has, through the ages, been singing itself in jubilee and wail?

From Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

These strains the way for thine own strains prepare; We feel the music moist upon this breeze, And hope the congregating poesies.

From Sister Songs; an offering to two sisters by Francis Thompson

Apollo first his golden rays among, Did form the beauty of her bounteous eyes; He graced her with his sweet melodious song, And made her subject of his poesies.

From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles Phillis - Licia by Martha Foote Crow

"Camille thinks youth and beauty the first of poesies," said Claude Vignon.

From Beatrix by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

The "beautiful poesies" came, and so did the various, eloquent, well-considered prose.

From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Octavius Brooks Frothingham




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