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
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O, it interrupts your vision With its long, unceasing howl; It dispels your dreams elysian With insistence fresh and foul!
From Oklahoma Sunshine by Freeman E. (Freeman Edwin) Miller
What seems so is ——; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death.
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald
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 Madison Julius Cawein
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