poetize
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"But what am I to poetize on now, Emmeline?—the table, or yourself? because, at present, they are the only subjects under consideration, and I really can not see any thing very poetical in either."
From Home Influence A Tale for Mothers and Daughters by Aguilar, Grace
You are the subject now, and, writing you, I well may versify, not poetize: Here needs no fiction: for the graces true And virtues clip not with base flatteries.
From Pastoral Poems by Nicholas Breton, Selected Poetry by George Wither, and Pastoral Poetry by William Browne (of Tavistock) by Tutin, J. R.
He may poetize fairly, and saw poorly; or he may saw fairly, and poetize poorly; or he may both saw and poetize indifferently.
From Sex in Education or, A Fair Chance for Girls by Clarke, Edward Hammond
He had been touched with the prevailing romanticism; he had written hymns like Manzoni, and, like Carrer, he sought to poetize the traditions and superstitions of his countrymen.
From Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions by Howells, William Dean
I agree, my master, that 'tis better to philosophize and poetize, to blow the flame in the furnace, or to receive it from carry cats on a shield.
From Notre-Dame De Paris by Hapgood, Isabel Florence
The writing itself seems tipsy: It can be energetic, colorful, fun, buzzy, affecting and spot on, but also loose, sloppy, digressive and excessively poetized at moments, veering into nebulous grandiosity.
From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2018
A combatant for liberty, Shelley poetized in Queen Mob against kings, priests, commerce, wealth and war; he sought out the reformer, William Godwin, and in due course fell in love with his daughter, Mary.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sick-bed is poetized as the cradle of knowledge, for in it, or on it, we become introspective and learn life.
From Graf von Loeben and the Legend of Lorelei by Porterfield, Allen Wilson
Instead of the sublime and beautiful, the near, the low, the common, was explored and poetized.
From Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Turpin, Edna Henry Lee
In it is something of the reality poetized and seen through the eyes of an artist which characterizes the work of Eugene Delacroix.
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 2, January, 1896 by Various
Why single out Freud, who, despite his Romantic poetizing about the seething cauldron of the unconscious, was himself a neurological determinist and reductionist?
From Scientific American ● Jun. 16, 2019
For four years he wandered through southern France, now poetizing for his connoisseur-host, Charles of Orleans, in the chateau at Blois, now sleeping in haystacks, once sentenced to death at Orleans.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is machine-made biography, but Ludwig is a facile mechanic, and only errs badly in poetizing, when he seems to write faster than he thinks.
From Time Magazine Archive
I am just now in a high fit for poetizing, provided that the strait-jacket of criticism don’t cure me.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert
Aeschylus, in fact, was poetizing an earlier legend of the fortress of Cadmus.
From Suppliant Maidens and Other Plays by Morshead, E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson)
