undersong

Example Sentences

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The undersong of Dot’s unconscious gets lost in all the quotidian bustle.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2023

The undersong here is underplumage: those jewel-like greens and purples and reds you can spot beneath the oil-slick surface of certain black-feathered birds.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 12, 2017

Too long, too long,     You have forgot my undersong.

From The Little Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets by Rittenhouse, Jessie Belle

And listen to the flapping of the flame, Or kettle whispering its faint undersong.

From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Austin, Alfred

So ended she; and all the rest around To her redoubled that her undersong*, 110 Which said, their brydale daye should not be long: And gentle Eccho from the neighbour ground Their accents did resound.

From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Spenser, Edmund