Verb (used with object) : to poetize a story. ,to poetize reality. From Dictionary.com.
The eye of love poetises ¦ all passions and activities of the senses poetise; and if we could entirely abolish this poesy, it is a question whether anything would be left to make life worth living. From Wordnik.com. [Friedrich Albert Lange] Reference
There is no philosopher who does not poetise and paint. From Wordnik.com. [Montaigne and Shakspere] Reference
To sit at one's ease and poetise -- that is a pleasure; everybody has something agreeable to say to you, and you are always your own master. From Wordnik.com. [Andersen's Fairy Tales] Reference
Mokompa, also, continued to poetise, as in days gone by, having made a safe retreat with Chimbolo, and, among other things, enshrined all the deeds of the two white men in native verse. From Wordnik.com. [Black Ivory] Reference
Had the charge of Balaclava taken place on Clapham Common, or had our gallant swordsmen replaced the donkeys on Hampstead Heath, even Tennyson would have been unable to poetise their exploits. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris] Reference
The birds would no longer flute to us of lost loves, but of found worms; we should realise how terribly selfish they are; we could never more quote 'Hark, hark, the lark at heaven's gate sings,' or poetise with Mr. Patmore of 'the heavenly-minded thrush.'. From Wordnik.com. [Prose Fancies] Reference
Another will yearn for the poetic glamour, gilding realistic truth, of Giorgione; for the intensely pathetic interpretation of Lorenzo Lotto, with its unique combination of the strongest subjective and objective elements, the one serving to poetise and accentuate the other. From Wordnik.com. [The Earlier Work of Titian]
And I apprehend that it is this exalting or etherealising attribute of beauty to which all poets, all writers who would poetise the realities of life, have unconsciously rendered homage, in the rank to which they elevate what, stripped of such attribute, would be but a gaudy idol of painted clay. From Wordnik.com. [What Will He Do with It? — Complete] Reference
A more accomplished Judgement, more firmly builded upon vertue: I say these with numbers of others, not onely to read others Poesies, but to poetise for others reading; that Poesie thus embraced in all other places, should onely finde in our time a hard welcome in England. From Wordnik.com. [Defence of Poesie] Reference
You poetise her rarely, and exalt. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3)] Reference
And I can poetise; and (being well encourag'd). From Wordnik.com. [Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois] Reference
Are they fulfilled simply to teach and poetise?. From Wordnik.com. [Vanguard] Reference
I could poetise 'bout them. ". From Wordnik.com. [Sue, A Little Heroine] Reference
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