poetize

Example Sentences

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When we talk of being invaded in the north, we poetize the idea of defense by the figure of defending our hearthstones.

From Venetian Life by Howells, William Dean

Life is not life if I must cease to think, Or, thinking, cease to poetize.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 by Various

They develop exotically, scarce one that does not grow outside its original sphere, assimilate foreign unhistorical matter, blur all chronology, and anachronistically poetize the dim recollections of a historical but long-forgotten underground.

From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Schoenfeld, Hermann

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 don't know why I poetize on Vicq d'Azyr.

From Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories by Ouida