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

According to P�p, the most remote antiquity, and also the elysian state of man, was always that joyous time "when the animals had speech."

From The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan by Douglas, Frances

We would see Jesus when our fading vision, Lost to the consciousness of earth and sky, Has only insight for the far elysian; We would see Jesus when we come to die!

From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by Mudge, James

In chambers of gold elysian, The cymbals clash and clang, But the days are gone like a vision When the people wrought and sang.

From Alcyone by Lampman, Archibald