Read full poem →DALY [ PUL ‘OP 0} SUIYJOWOS IO; PULIDY}IM ‘aseo
ayistnbxa ‘snonjdnyjoa ut pis af[dood uses savy
[ ‘UOI}N}Ysep puL soUD.TF1UseUI JO SoTIII}
Dictionary Entry
The 16th letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets and the seventeenth in Old Greek.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. pisaller pisar pispour pispis tantpis seepis aq
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Poetry examples for “pis”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →A Caution to Poets.
Pis-Aller.
Epilogue to Lessing's Laocoön.
Read full poem →necessity to alliterate, and ‘it seems a pity to devote
so much time and labour to what is after all a pis
aller’! Nor did the more recent imitative attempt of
Read full poem →TRICE SSC RS TUTE Se aes 0 5 ed a g
AM MM PIS EMITS eu as ae OeS OLE ITS crv tail he wet eSowaaues 12
Pee MSMR ED NW ern Ah Ro he ck ESS cic he oo ue baw cee Micon wane eee 15
Read full poem →is to reach the height of poetic expression then Ezra and Eliot have
approached it and _tant pis_ for the rest of us.