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

O, it interrupts your vision With its long, unceasing howl; It dispels your dreams elysian With insistence fresh and foul!

From Oklahoma Sunshine by Miller, Freeman E. (Freeman Edwin)

We would see Jesus when our fading vision, Lost to the consciousness of earth and sky, Has only insight for the far elysian; We would see Jesus when we come to die!

From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by Mudge, James

I felt borne along by a mighty torrent which was sweeping me from elysian fields into some fathomless abyss.

From Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography by Oliphant, Laurence