canzonet

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Presently a single voice rose, singing an exquisite little French canzonet, the refrain of which was a passionate repetition of the word "Amie."

From Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories by Alcott, Louisa May

The canzonet opens with a long symphony for piano.

From Shakespeare and Music by Wilson, Christopher

How we sang together the old-fashioned canzonet, 'Love in thine eyes forever plays'?

From A Romance of the Republic by Child, Lydia Maria Francis

Young Love's for us a farce that's played; Light canzonet and serenade No more may tempt us; Gray hairs but ill accord with dreams; From aught but sour didactic themes Our years exempt us.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

The little canzonet "J'aime mieux ma mie," is, I believe, the first Wordsworthian poem298 brought forward on philosophical principles to oppose the schools of art and affectation.

From Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things by Ruskin, John