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

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 Fernald, James Champlin

If you felt as much as you thought, And dreamed what you seem to dream, A world of elysian beauty Your ruined heart would redeem.

From Songs and Satires by Masters, Edgar Lee