poesy
noun
the work or the art of poetic composition.
poesies
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pluralof poesy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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From wearing bracelets of hair, shoe-ties, gloves, garters, and rings with poesies.
From Cynthia's Revels by Ben Jonson
Still, the chief merit of the book, as a book, was the light and decided touch with which its author took up the follies and poesies of the day, and brought them all before us.
From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Margaret Fuller
I read his poesies last autumn, and, amongst them, found an epitaph on his bull-dog, and another on myself.
From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore
Such ever-living poesies have a language heard, rather than understood by the poor girl, who yielded to vague misery among the shadows.
From The Hated Son by Honoré de Balzac
Hence that unconquerable instinct of immortality, that universal hope of another life to which all worships, all poesies, all traditions bear witness.
From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin
