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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : poh-uh-see, -zee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈpoʊ ə si, -zi |
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Définition of poesy
Origin :- late 14c., "poetry; poetic language and ideas; literature; a poem, a passage of poetry," from Old French poesie (mid-14c.), from Vulgar Latin poesia (source of Provençal, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian poesia), from Latin poesis "poetry, a poem," from Greek poesis "composition, poetry," literally "a making, fabrication," variant of poiesis, from poein, poiein "to make or compose" (see poet). Meaning "the art of poetry" is late 15c.
- noun poem
- At least I can do none of these things, and poesy wearies me to read, much more to write.
- Extract from : « Fair Margaret » by H. Rider Haggard
- How difficult then to ascertain the truth respecting our poesy and music!
- Extract from : « The Letters of Robert Burns » by Robert Burns
- And he is wise too; for he is a poet, and the author of poesy in others.
- Extract from : « Symposium » by Plato
- Neither of the partners in poesy had the least idea of anything more than being just that.
- Extract from : « The Portygee » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
- Has he ever drunk deep draughts from old fountains of poesy?
- Extract from : « Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 » by Various
- The daisy (Saxon Daeges ege) has often been cited as fragrant with poesy.
- Extract from : « Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 » by Various
- The flowers of poesy are sweet, but poverty is a barren soil, my child.
- Extract from : « Ernest Linwood » by Caroline Lee Hentz
- Such completeness of view, however, is alien to the poesy of Hawaii.
- Extract from : « Unwritten Literature of Hawaii » by Nathaniel Bright Emerson
- Never did rebuke so fill us with shame at our want of imagination and of poesy.
- Extract from : « Modern Women and What is Said of Them » by Anonymous
- What sweetness hath Muscovada to him who hath tasted of Poesy?
- Extract from : « Burlesques » by William Makepeace Thackeray
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