parting song

Example Sentences

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His parting song to Clarinda is, in the opinion of many literary men, the greatest love-song of its kind ever written.

From The Real Robert Burns by Hughes, J. L.

"Certainly, I do; I have heard nothing so sweet as your voice, dear Edith, since I heard your last parting song."

From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Hentz, Caroline Lee

They bade farewell, German student fashion, singing together beforehand the parting song Abschied.

From Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1 by Tytler, Sarah

I know not,—yet farewell   Sweet home of mine,—my parting song is o'er, And stranger forms among your bowers shall dwell,   Where I return no more.

From The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems by MacLean, Kate Seymour

Why did he not pour forth a parting song Expressive of his feelings—always strong?

From The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales in Verse Together with Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects by Cowherd, Thomas