poesy
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She eventually expanded into jewelry, offering oval filigree lockets, enamel vermeil zodiac charms and stackable gold bands that riff on 15th-century poesy rings.
From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2022
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
“Spiritual songs” is a more general expression, including all varieties of Christian poesy, provided that they come from the Spirit moving in the heart.
From The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon by Alexander Maclaren
And so I keep mine uncompanioned ways; And so my touch, to golden poesies Turning love's bread, is bought at hunger's price.
From Sister Songs; an offering to two sisters by Francis Thompson
"Camille thinks youth and beauty the first of poesies," said Claude Vignon.
From Beatrix by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
Monsieur Vanderbourg! for that gentleman is the ostensible editor of Clotilde’s poesies of the fifteenth century, some ingenious persons are unlucky in this world!
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli
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 Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
The "beautiful poesies" came, and so did the various, eloquent, well-considered prose.
From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
