Ĭd'yl or ĭd'yl, n.

n. [Fr. idylle, It. idillio, Sp. idilio, Lat. idyllium, Gr. εἰδύλλιον, diminutive of εἶδος, form; literally, a little form or image.] A short poem; properly, a short pastoral poem; as, the idyls of Theocritus; but also any poem, especially a narrative or descriptive poem, written in an elevated and highly-finished style. [Written also idyll.]

Or at times a modern volume—Wordsworth's solemn-thoughted idyl, Howitt's ballad-verse, or Tennyson's enchanted revery— Or from Browning some “Pomegranate,” which, if cut deep down the middle, Showed a heart within, blood-tinctured, of a veined humanity! E. B. Browning.