| 释义 |
poesy, n. arch.|ˈpəʊɪsɪ|
Forms: α. 4 poysi, 4–5 poisie, 4–6 poysee, -ie, -ye, 5 poise, -ei, poyse, poyesye, 6 poisee, poysy. β. 5–7 poesie, -ye, 6 poesi, poezi, 5– poesy. See also posy.
[a. OF. poesie (c 1335 in Godef. Compl.) = Pr., Sp., Pg., It. poesia, Common Romanic formation for L. poēsis poetry, a poem, a. Gr. πόησις, early variant of ποίησις a making, creation, poetry, a poem. Poesy and poet occur earlier than poetry and poem.]
1. = poetry.
a. Poetical work or composition; poems collectively or generally; poetry in the concrete, or as a form of literature. (In early use sometimes including composition in prose, esp. works of imagination or fiction: cf. poem 1 b, poet 1 b, c, poetry 2.) Now an archaic or poetical synonym of poetry.
13..Min. Poems fr. Vern. MS. lv. vii. 73 Salamon seide in his poysi, He holdeþ wel betere wiþ an hounde Þat is lykyng and Ioly,..Þen be a Leon,..Cold and ded. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xviii. 406 Thanne piped pees of poysye a note. 1390Gower Conf. II. 148 Ovide..tolde a tale in Poesie, Which toucheth unto Jelousie. c1400Destr. Troy 418 As put is in poise and prikkit be Ouyd. 1560Whitehorne Arte Warre 108 b, The perfeccion that poesie, paintyng, and writing, is now brought vnto. 1581Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 49 It is not ryming and versing, that maketh Poesie. One may bee a Poet without versing, and a versifier without Poetry. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. iv. §1. 1636 Denham Destr. Troy Pref. (1656) A iij, Poesy is of so subtle a spirit, that in pouring out of one Language into another, it will all evaporate. a1704T. Brown Sat. Antients Wks. 1730 I. 14 The Satirical poesy of the Greeks. 1841D'Israeli Amen. Lit. (1867) 405 Among the arts of English poesie, the most ample and most curious is an anonymous work. 1883Congregationalist Mar. 265 The Book of Psalms..is the Paradise of Devotion, the Holy Land of poesy.
b. Poetry in the abstract, or as an art.c. Faculty or skill of poetical composition.
1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Oct. 79 O pierlesse Poesye, where is then the place? 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie ii. i. (Arb.) 79 Poesie is a skill to speake & write harmonically. 1636B. Jonson Discov. Wks. 1641 II. 125 A Poeme..is the worke of the Poet..Poesy is his skill, or Crafte of making. 1686Dryden Ode Anne Killigrew 57 O gracious God! how far have we Profaned thy heavenly gift of Poesy! 1807Opie in Lect. Paint. ii. (1848) 273 Painting..has been called mute poesy. 1879M. Pattison Milton ii. 29 In Lycidas (1637) we have reached the high-water mark of English Poesy and of Milton's own production.
2. (with a and pl.)
†a. A poetical composition; a poem. (In early use often in more general sense: An inventive or imaginative composition.)
c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 124 Þei prechen cronyclis & poisies & newe fyndynges of hem self. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VI. 143 He made wonder poysies as it were of alle þe stories of holy writte. 1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy ii. xii. (MS. Digby 230) lf. 67 b/2 He reherced many poysies. c1440Promp. Parv. 407/1 Poyse, poema. 1552Huloet s.v., He that maketh such poesies or Balades. 1575Laneham Let. (1871) 5 [She] pronounced a proper poezi in English rime and meeter. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. i. iv. §9 Holding them but as diuine poesies. a1727Newton Chronol. Amended l. (1728) 194 Thymætes..wrote a poesy called Phrygia. 1843Lytton Last Bar. ii. iii, George of Clarence hath some pretty taste in the arts and poesies.
†b. pl. Poetical expressions or ideas. Obs. rare.
1387–8T. Usk Test. Love iii. vii. (Skeat) l. 57 Thy wordes may nat be queynt, ne of subtel maner understandinge. Freel-witted people supposen in suche poesies to be begyled.
†3. A motto or short inscription (often metrical, and usually in patterned or formal language): = posy 1, q.v. Obs.
c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 65 And for youre poyesye these lettres v. ye take, Of this name Maria, only for hir sake. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. V 65 b, The tente was replenished and decked with this poysie [1568 Grafton poesie], ‘After busie laboure commeth victorious reste’. 1548Udall Erasm. Par. Luke xxiii. 172 b, There was also a superscripcion or poisee written on the toppe of the crosse, derectely ouer his head, in Greke, in Latin, and Hebrue letters. 1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 450 Out of the very same old word..is framed his Poesie, or woorde upon his armes (Ic Dien) I serve. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. v. i. 148, 151. 1602 ― Ham. iii. ii. 162 Is this a Prologue, or the Poesie of a Ring? 1675Lond. Gaz. No. 975/4 A Wedding Ring with this Poesie (‘In thee my Choice, I do rejoyce’).
†4. A bunch of flowers, a nosegay: = posy 2.
1572Gascoigne (title) A Hundreth sundrie Flowres bounde up in one small Poesie. 1629R. Hill Pathw. Piety (ed. Pickering) I. 146 They do offer a poesy of flowers. 1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 64/1 Sweet William is (as it were) many Pinks growing together like a Poesy.
5. attrib.
1387–8T. Usk Test. Love Prol. 25 There ben some that speken their poysye mater in Frenche, of whiche speche the Frenche men have as good a fantasye as we have in hering of Frenche mennes English. 1861Our Eng. Home 151 The banqueting stuff..spread out on painted trenchers and ‘poesie roundels’.
Hence ˈpoesy v. intr. (rare), to compose or recite poetry; to speak or write poetically.
1819Keats Isabella ix, So said, his erewhile timid lips grew bold, And poesied with hers in dewy rhyme. |