poetise
- a variation of poetize.
Example Sentences
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There is no philosopher who does not poetise and paint.
From Montaigne and Shakspere by Robertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon)
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 Suyematsu, Baron Kencho
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 Pearson, Francis B.
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 Schiller, Friedrich
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 Labouchere, Henry
