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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



... I invoked thee for my Muse And found such fair assistance in my verse As every alien pen hath got my use And under thee their poesy disperse. ...
— Testimony of the Sonnets as to the Authorship of the Shakespearean Plays and Poems • Jesse Johnson
... thou well, thou secret lore: Necromancy, Alchemy! Formulas shall bind no more, And our art is poesy. ...
— The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: - Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English, Volume 5. • Various
... is hot, and we are speechless. It was shameful of us to put down the Spanish Gipsy, and let it return unfinished to Mudie's! Never did rebuke so fill us with shame at our want of imagination and of poesy. But already the Preacher has passed to politics, and is deep in Mr. Mill's prophecies of coming events. She is severe on the triviality of the House, or the quarrelsome debates of the past Session. She passes by our murmured excuse of the weather, and dwells with a temperate enthusiasm on ...
— Modern Women and What is Said of Them - A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) • Anonymous
... poetical young gentleman—a very poetical young gentleman. We do not mean to say that he is troubled with the gift of poesy in any remarkable degree, but his countenance is of a plaintive and melancholy cast, his manner is abstracted and bespeaks affliction of soul: he seldom has his hair cut, and often talks about being an outcast and wanting a kindred spirit; from which, as well as from many general observations ...
— Sketches by Boz - illustrative of everyday life and every-day people • Charles Dickens
... who gave to the world that rich, soulful, and exquisite poesy, "The Boy Stood on the Burning Deck." It is said the ...
— Who Was Who: 5000 B. C. to Date - Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be • Anonymous


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