elysian

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But Phillips’s songs—ethereal, elysian, toothsome—have inspired plenty of scholars and fans to go scouting for more information, beginning with the musical apparatus that might have been responsible for that celestial chiming.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 20, 2016

Now 2 & 3 Part Inventions, a work of elysian balance and serenity, is performed at N.Y.C.B.

From Time Magazine Archive

Be this our home in life; and, when years heap Their withered hours like leaves on our decay, Let us become the overhanging day, The living soul, of this elysian isle— Conscious, inseparable, one.

From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James

Soft and elysian in its beauty was all around.

From Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)

Eluding yet love's sweet control, Yet raining dreams elysian?

From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 by Various