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poetise

  • a variation of poetize.
    poetize
    verb (used without object)
    to write poetry.

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Mokompa, also, continued to poetise, as in days gone by, having made a safe retreat with Chimbolo, and, among other things, enshrined all the deeds of the two white men in native verse.

From Black Ivory by Francis B. Pearson

There is no philosopher who does not poetise and paint.

From Montaigne and Shakspere by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

Had the charge of Balaclava taken place on Clapham Common, or had our gallant swordsmen replaced the donkeys on Hampstead Heath, even Tennyson would have been unable to poetise their exploits.

From Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris by Henry Labouchere

But by an effort of the imagination, which likes to poetise things, we often carry over these attributes of a rational being to beings destitute of reason.

From Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller by Friedrich Schiller

Those sounds are considered especially musical in the depth of night: we even poetise the sounds of falling hailstones.

From A Fantasy of Far Japan Summer Dream Dialogues by Baron Kencho Suyematsu