poesy
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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
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s adaptation of T. S. Eliot’s feline poesy ends its Broadway revival.
From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2017
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
"A little poesy," he thought, "separates us from history and the reality of things; much of poesy brings us back."
From Shelburne Essays, Third Series by More, Paul Elmer
They praised each other's beauties ingenuously, spending treasures of language on these secret idylls, inventing soft exaggerations and more diminutives than the ancient muse of Tibullus, or the poesies of Italy.
From The Hated Son by Balzac, Honoré de
Such ever-living poesies have a language heard, rather than understood by the poor girl, who yielded to vague misery among the shadows.
From The Hated Son by Balzac, Honoré de
We have seen many fair poesies of human life, in which, however, the tragic thread has not been wanting.
From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret
I read his poesies last autumn, and, amongst them, found an epitaph on his bull-dog, and another on myself.
From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals by Moore, Thomas
By this time Scott and Coleridge were dead; Byron, Shelley, and Keats had been dead for years, and Mrs. Radcliffe's poesies fell upon the unheeding ears of a new generation.
From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
