poesy

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

An unusual woman’s ring here from 1592, made of gold and rock crystal, is called a “memorial poesy ring”; on its inner surface is inscribed, “The cruel seas, remember, took him in November.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2010

An intimate acquaintance with the learned languages had early enabled him to fill his mind from the rich storehouses of ancient poesy; he was all energy and imagination.

From The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) by John Knowles

Apollo first his golden rays among, Did form the beauty of her bounteous eyes; He graced her with his sweet melodious song, And made her subject of his poesies.

From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles Phillis - Licia by Martha Foote Crow

To a lady, who wrote poesies for rings:   They, who above do various circles find,   Say, like a ring, th' equator heaven does bind.

From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Samuel Johnson

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

From wearing bracelets of hair, shoe-ties, gloves, garters, and rings with poesies.

From Cynthia's Revels by Ben Jonson

Such ever-living poesies have a language heard, rather than understood by the poor girl, who yielded to vague misery among the shadows.

From The Hated Son by Honoré de Balzac