1. poesy - Noun
2. poesy - Verb
The art of composing poems; poetical skill or faculty; as, the heavenly gift of poesy.
Poetry; metrical composition; poems.
A short conceit or motto engraved on a ring or other thing; a posy.
Source: Webster's dictionaryMusic is inarticulate poesy. John Dryden
As I lay asleep in Italy There came a voice from over the Sea, And with great power it forth led me To walk in the visions of Poesy. Percy Bysshe Shelley
O gracious God how far have we Profan'd thy heavenly gift of poesy. John Dryden
Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical. Francis Bacon
In old days the plastic arts, music, and poesy were so germane to man in his totality that his Transcendence plainly manifest in them. ... What is to-day obvious to all is a decay in the essence of art. ... the opposition to man's true nature as man. Karl Jaspers
The spirit of Poesy is the morning light, which makes the Statue of Memnon sound. Novalis