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Poem of the countryside (Var.)
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Idyl \I"dyl\, n. [L. idyllium, Gr. ?, fr. ? form; literally, a little form of image: cf. F. idylle. See Idol .] A short poem; properly, a short pastoral poem; as, the idyls of Theocritus; also, any poem, especially a narrative or descriptive poem, written ...
Usage examples of idyl.
When Hermia departed suddenly for Europe, her sportive idyl so suddenly shattered, Mr.
That other girl, the joyous companion of his summer idyl, was no more.
She knew that she was clean and that you were, and the dirt that threatened her threatened her idyl, too.
In those idyls clustering about King Arthur, Tennyson has patently purposed painting the figure of a perfect man.
Amsel, and she alone, whom he is permitted at this point to excerpt from the village idyl, for she is the mother of our plumpish Eduard Amsel, who in the course of the first to fourth morning shifts fished beanpoles, roofing laths, and heavy waterlogged rags from the rising Vistula and is now, like Walter Matern, about to be baptized.
A GARDEN IDYL With sagest craft Arachne worked Her web, and at a corner lurked, Awaiting what should plump her soon, To case it in the death-cocoon.
O decadents of the town, we have seen your sham idyls, your tinsel Arcadias.
Diderot stretches out his arms to all these love idyls, and d'Urfe mingles druids with them.
Woodberry well says: “He created lasting pictures of human life, some of which have the eternal outline and pose of a Theocritean idyl.