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

Life seemed an elysian dream, from which care and sorrow must be for ever banished.

From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Hentz, Caroline Lee

Soft and elysian in its beauty was all around.

From Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)

Eluding yet love's sweet control, Yet raining dreams elysian?

From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 by Various