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Letter "P" » poesy
«Poesy was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind by submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
erect, poesy, shews, submitting
«A drainless shower / Of light is poesy; 'tis the supreme power; / 'Tis might half slumbering on his own right arm.»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
| Keywords:
on his own, own right, poesy, shower, slumbering, Supreme Power
«O for ten years, that I may overwhelm / Myself in poesy; so I may do the deed / That my own soul has to itself decreed.»
«Life went a-maying / With Nature, Hope, and Poesy, / When I was young!»
«Much is the force of heaven-bred poesy.»
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