poesies
- plural of poesy.
Example Sentences
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Apollo first his golden rays among, Did form the beauty of her bounteous eyes; He graced her with his sweet melodious song, And made her subject of his poesies.
From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles Phillis - Licia by Crow, Martha Foote
Also Caedmon of Whitby was inspired of the Holy Ghost, and made wonder poesies in English nigh of all the stories of holy writ.
From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various
"Siren charms" and "bright-eyed enchantress," "soft zephyrs" and "gentle poesies," might be the stock expressions always ready to lend themselves to rhymes, with a hundred others of the like nature.
From Her Season in Bath A Story of Bygone Days by Marshall, Emma
There are two pieces addressed to Ægidius Luyck in D. Selyn's MSS. of poesies, upon his marriage with Judith Isendoorn.
From Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete by Irving, Washington
In 1855 she published Contes en vers, and in 1862 Contes et poesies.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
