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
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
The ambrosial stuff of poesy it was not, except maybe to Dilbert fans: “inviting coworkers.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2011
An allied form is the villancico, or conceit, usually of three or four lines, a fugitive piece, enshrining some fleeting emotion, and often packed with the matter of poesy.
From Legends & Romances of Spain by Lewis Spence
In 1855 she published Contes en vers, and in 1862 Contes et poesies.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
Horace Walpole says—“My Lady Rochford desired me t’other day to give her a motto for a ruby ring,” so that at that time poesies were not confined to wedding rings.
From Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places Being Papers on Art, in Relation to Archaeology, Painting, Art-Decoration, and Art-Manufacture by F. W. (Frederick William) Fairholt
In 1624 a small collection of them was printed, with the quaint title, “Love’s Garland; or poesies for rings, handkerchiefs, and gloves, and such pretty tokens that lovers send their loves.”
From Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places Being Papers on Art, in Relation to Archaeology, Painting, Art-Decoration, and Art-Manufacture by F. W. (Frederick William) Fairholt
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
She published in 1874 Poesies, premieres poesies, poesies philosophiques, a volume of sombre and powerful verse, expressing her revolt against human suffering.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
