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noun
Poesy  n.  
1.
The art of composing poems; poetical skill or faculty; as, the heavenly gift of poesy.
2.
Poetry; metrical composition; poems. "Music and poesy used to quicken you."
3.
A short conceit or motto engraved on a ring or other thing; a posy.





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"Poesy" Quotes from Famous Books



... yore— The choice old English rhyme—and over thine, Oh! "glorious John," delightedly I pore— Keen, vigorous, chaste, and full of harmony, Deep in the soil of our humanity It taketh root, until the goodly tree Of Poesy puts forth green branch and bough, With bud and blossom sweet. Through the rich gloom Of one embowered haunt I see thee now, Where 'neath thy hand the "Flower and Leaflet" bloom. That hand to dust hath mouldered long ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848 • Various
... picture are arts of a like nature, and both are busy about imitation. It was excellently said of Plutarch, poetry was a speaking picture, and picture a mute poesy. For they both invent, feign and devise many things, and accommodate all they invent to the use and service of Nature. Yet of the two, the pen is more noble than the pencil; for that can speak to the understanding, the other but to the sense. They both behold pleasure ...
— Discoveries and Some Poems • Ben Jonson
... and men is sacred song. Self-taught I sing: by Heaven and Heaven alone The genuine seeds of poesy are sown. ...
— Chosen Peoples • Israel Zangwill
... of Ainsworth's literary work that "there are diversities of gifts, and it is no offence to his memory to conclude that he shone more as an exegete than as a poet." Poesy is a gift of the gods and cometh not from deep Hebrew study nor from vast learning, and we must accept Ainsworth's pious enthusiasm in the place of poetic fervor. Of the quality of his work, however, it is best to judge for one's self. Here is his rendition of the Nineteenth Psalm, ...
— Sabbath in Puritan New England • Alice Morse Earle
... longer feign calmness or indifference. Did he think that she could ever forget him? Ah! Those days had been the sweetest in all her existence; the romance of her life, the blue flower that all women, even the most ordinary, carry within their memories like a breath of poesy. ...
— Luna Benamor • Vicente Blasco Ibanez


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