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)

He was walking in some elysian realm which had nothing to do with the tawdry evidence of life about him.

From The "Genius" by Dreiser, Theodore

And vision on vision,— Like ships elysian On some white mission,— Sails cloud on cloud; With scents of clover The winds brim over, And in the cover The stream is loud.

From Weeds by the Wall Verses by Cawein, Madison Julius