Crossword clues for idyl
idyl
- Short pastoral poem (Var.)
- Poem of the countryside (Var.)
- Poem of everyday life
- Peaceful poem
- Musical composition that evokes rural life
- Musical composition evoking rural life (var.)
- Composition describing rural life (Var.)
- Utopian episode
- Tennyson product (Var.)
- Short, pastoral poem
- Short poem about country life
- Short poem (var.)
- Short pastoral poem
- Rural life poem (var.)
- Romanticized story
- Poem about rustic life
- Picturesque episode
- Pastoral work: Var
- Pastoral verse (Abbr.)
- Pastoral poem
- Pastoral poem [anagram of IDLY]
- Pastoral music
- Paean to country life
- One of many writings by Theocritus
- Ode to country life
- Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," e.g
- Form reinterpreted by Tennyson
- Description of rustic life (var.)
- Description of rustic life
- Composition that evokes rural life (Var.)
- Charming scene
- Charming country scene (var.)
- Bucolic lines
- Bit of bucolic verse
- "American ___" (reality show I just made up where three judges decide on the best pastoral poem)
- Theocritus work
- Romantic interlude (var.)
- Pastoral poem (Var.)
- Charming scene (Var.)
- Old-fashioned poem
- Quaint poem
- Tennyson work, e.g. (Var.)
- Tranquil scene
- Poetic work by Tennyson
- Pastoral composition (Var.)
- Bucolic poem (Var.)
- Some Halloween dГ©cor
- Short pastoral piece
- Bucolic verse
- Pastoral verse (Var.)
- Quaint literary work
- Eclogue
- Pastoral piece (Var.)
- Brief amour
- Rural poem
- Pastoral scene
- Pastoral work: Var.
- Geologic periods
- Pastoral work (Var.)
- Pastoral composition
- Short, descriptive poem (Var.)
- Country poem
- Rustic poem
- Peaceful scene
- Short descriptive poem (Var.)
- Peaceful episode
- Musical composition that evokes rural life (Var.)
- Carefree episode
- Some Halloween décor
- Short, peaceful poem (Var.)
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 in an eleveted and highly finished style; also, by extension, any artless and easily flowing description, either in poetry or prose, of simple, rustic life, of pastoral scenes, and the like. [Written also idyll.]
Wordsworth's solemn-thoughted idyl.
--Mrs.
Browning.
His [Goldsmith's] lovely idyl of the Vicar's home.
--F.
Harrison.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of idyll English)
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.