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poesy

[poh-uh-see, -zee] / ˈpoʊ ə si, -zi /


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She eventually expanded into jewelry, offering oval filigree lockets, enamel vermeil zodiac charms and stackable gold bands that riff on 15th-century poesy rings.

From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2022

The White Album’s tonal and visual proximities begin with The Pure and the Damned, the music video from Oneohtrix Point Never featuring Iggy Pop’s eerie poesy, from the 2017 film Good Time.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 11, 2018

Costner delivers Dutton’s threats, pleas, and cowboy poesy in a rasp.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 20, 2018

To learn grammar was to appreciate the book’s poesy, which in turn was to break open a once-inaccessible text.

From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2017

I answer, that as I defend myself by their example, so that example I defend by reason, and by the end of all dramatic poesy.

From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by John Dryden

By this time Scott and Coleridge were dead; Byron, Shelley, and Keats had been dead for years, and Mrs. Radcliffe's poesies fell upon the unheeding ears of a new generation.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

"Camille thinks youth and beauty the first of poesies," said Claude Vignon.

From Beatrix by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

I read his poesies last autumn, and, amongst them, found an epitaph on his bull-dog, and another on myself.

From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore

She published in 1874 Poesies, premieres poesies, poesies philosophiques, a volume of sombre and powerful verse, expressing her revolt against human suffering.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

Also Caedmon of Whitby was inspired of the Holy Ghost, and made wonder poesies in English nigh of all the stories of holy writ.

From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various




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