Pō'et-ry, n.

n. [O. Fr. poeterie. See POET.] 1. Modes of expressing thought and feeling which are suitable to the imagination when excited or elevated, and characterized usually by a measured form of one sort or another.

For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language. Coleridge.

2Sense 2. Metrical composition; verse; as, heroic poetry; dramatic poetry; lyric or Pindaric poetry. “The planet-like music of poetry.” Sidney.

3Sense 3. Imaginative composition, whether in prose or verse.