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
And so I keep mine uncompanioned ways; And so my touch, to golden poesies Turning love's bread, is bought at hunger's price.
From Sister Songs; an offering to two sisters by Francis Thompson
In 1624 a small collection of them was printed, with the quaint title, “Love’s Garland; or poesies for rings, handkerchiefs, and gloves, and such pretty tokens that lovers send their loves.”
From Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places Being Papers on Art, in Relation to Archaeology, Painting, Art-Decoration, and Art-Manufacture by F. W. (Frederick William) Fairholt
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
And, indeed, are not all poesies but various notes of that mighty diapason of Thought and Feeling, that has, through the ages, been singing itself in jubilee and wail?
From Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
