To me poesy is the crystalization of a time, place, mood, event, etc. made very personal by the words and form chosen. From Wordnik.com. [poesie - French Word-A-Day] Reference
Dishes are more or less mixed up with poesy, which is full of "flowing bowls,". From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Home] Reference
Oscar did a lot of poetic writing which I would call poesy, using images that are not germane to what's going on. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
Did not one of the fathers in great indignation call poesy vinum daemonum, because it increaseth temptations, perturbations, and vain opinions?. From Wordnik.com. [The Advancement of Learning] Reference
One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum doemonum, because it filleth the imagination; and yet, it is but with the shadow of a lie. From Wordnik.com. [The Essays] Reference
"Did not one of the Fathers, in great indignation, call poesy. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 186, May 21, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
Here too are mystery, poesy, and a perpetual horizon. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866] Reference
Philosophy very often borrow the masking raiment of poesy. From Wordnik.com. [English literary criticism] Reference
Muses, the nine deities who presided over various kinds of poesy, music, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
Christianity has the great merit of having discovered the poesy of the grave. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
But I list not to defend poesy, with the help of her underling, historiography. From Wordnik.com. [English literary criticism] Reference
If 1848 was a year of light and poesy, 1849 was a year of weakness and tragedy. From Wordnik.com. [Readings on Fascism and National Socialism Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of Colorado] Reference
Some wrongly take these allusions to mean that he belongs to the realm of poesy. From Wordnik.com. [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference
(Which then more heaven than 't is, will be) 'T is thou must write the poesy there. From Wordnik.com. [English literary criticism] Reference
When I read, it is her voice that seems to speak to me from the Minnesinger's poesy. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference
I awake, on the contrary full of languor and poesy; I was like that in my very cradle. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
For poesy must not be drawn by the ears, it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead. From Wordnik.com. [English literary criticism] Reference
There earth, here heaven; there the coarse prose of the man of business, here celestial poesy. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The notion that superstition is favorable to poesy, he dissipates with masterly conclusiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
A jumping toothache would hardly be an advantage to a sufferer in turning his thoughts to poesy. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
And what of our beautiful, our historic southland about which the halo of poesy so lovingly lingers?. From Wordnik.com. [Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War] Reference
But when we come to his 'Odes to the Past and the Future,' the full power of poesy unfolds before us. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Let the realists, if they like, go on proclaiming that all is prose, and the idealists that all is poesy. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Women: George Sand] Reference
But let this be a sufficient, though short note, that we miss the right use of the material point of poesy. From Wordnik.com. [English literary criticism] Reference
Again she revelled in that wondrous garden of love and poesy, with a background of graves, solemnizing joy. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859] Reference
(By poesy we do not mean school-exercises, and prize heroics approved by a committee of literary gentlemen.). From Wordnik.com. [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2] Reference
Many a farmer had a sight of their comely, milk-white kine; many a swain had his soul turned to romance and poesy by. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
And who reads Plutarch's either history or philosophy, shall find he trimmeth both their garments with guards of poesy. From Wordnik.com. [English literary criticism] Reference
Perhaps there is no exception to the law that love should always be the first impulse that leads an ardent soul to poesy. From Wordnik.com. [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2] Reference
It contains some of the most beautiful thoughts for children that ever found vent in poesy, and beautiful "pictures to match.". From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, March 30, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
Here were rich mines of ancient eloquence, and fragrant flowers of poesy to enliven and perfume the dull cloister studies of the monks. From Wordnik.com. [Bibliomania in the Middle Ages] Reference
Sidney might have quoted his description of Pamela sewing, to justify his belief that "It is not rhyming and versing that maketh poesy". From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Prose Fiction] Reference
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