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

Such were the business-like plans which usurped the place of those mutual adulatory confidences presumed to occupy the first elysian hours of an engagement.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 by Various

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

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

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