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But by an effort of the imagination, which likes to poetise things, we often carry over these attributes of a rational being to beings destitute of reason.

From Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller by Schiller, Friedrich

Mokompa, also, continued to poetise, as in days gone by, having made a safe retreat with Chimbolo, and, among other things, enshrined all the deeds of the two white men in native verse.

From Black Ivory by Pearson, Francis B.

Had the charge of Balaclava taken place on Clapham Common, or had our gallant swordsmen replaced the donkeys on Hampstead Heath, even Tennyson would have been unable to poetise their exploits.

From Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris by Labouchere, Henry

You poetise her rarely, and exalt With goddess-attributes, and chastity Beyond most goddesses: be not thus serious!

From The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

Those sounds are considered especially musical in the depth of night: we even poetise the sounds of falling hailstones.

From A Fantasy of Far Japan Summer Dream Dialogues by Suyematsu, Baron Kencho