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Poesy

Poesy Meaning & Definition
Poesy Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Poesy?

[n] literature in metrical form

Synonyms | Synonyms for Poesy: poetry | verse

Related Terms | Find terms related to Poesy: afflatus | anthology | Apollo | Apollo Musagetes | bad poetry | book of verse | Bragi | Calliope | Castilian Spring | creative imagination | Erato | Euterpe | fire of genius | garland | Helicon | Hippocrene | inspiration | Muse | musical thought | Parnassus | Pierian Spring | Pierides | poetastering | poetastery | poetic genius | poetic works | poetry | Polyhymnia | rhyme | rune | song | the Muses | the supreme fiction | verse | versemongering

See Also | epos | genre | literary genre | writing style

Poesy In Webster's Dictionary

\Po"e*sy\, n. [F. po['e]sie (cf. It. poesia), L. poesis, from Gr. ?. from ? to make. Cf. {Posy}.] 1. The art of composing poems; poetical skill or faculty; as, the heavenly gift of poesy. --Shak. 2. Poetry; metrical composition; poems. Music and poesy used to quicken you. --Shak. 3. A short conceit or motto engraved on a ring or other thing; a posy. --Bacon.

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