About The Word Poesy
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Poesy
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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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