poetize
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The result must be dreadful where fervour will poetize without the aidful restraints of art and modesty.
From England's Antiphon by George MacDonald
Most of the men of Bova can poetize in two languages.
From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
"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 Grace Aguilar
But to poetize the tragedy of others, to fiddle while Rome is burning, is brutal.
From The Moral Economy by Ralph Barton Perry
All very well to poetize and maunder about in quiet Hazlewood; but, by Jove! you'll find it won't do in practical life.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 by Various
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
Her head was vividly defined among the flowers which poetized the brown and crumbling sills of her casement windows with their leaded panes.
From The Village Rector by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
I continued, but all arguments were poetized into feelings.
From The Campaner Thal and Other Writings by Jean Paul
Cousin Edith poetized upon the romance of the past; Jasmine counted two hundred and nine paper bags.
From Rich Relatives by Compton MacKenzie
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
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
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
Wolfram, his best friend, slow Wolfram, with his poetizing, his fondness for German singing societies, his songs to evening stars; Eschenbach, the brewer's son, to cut him out, cut out brilliant Harry Tannhäuser!
From Melomaniacs by James Huneker
But the manifestation of the growing ill-feeling towards France was not confined to poor but harmless poetizing.
From The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot
