undersong
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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
And ever and anon, with singults rife, He cryed out, to make his undersong; Ah! my loves queene, and goddesse of my life, Who shall me pittie, when thou doest me wrong?
From Spenser by R. W. (Richard William) Church
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 Edmund Spenser
And yet to you and not to me belong Those finer instincts that, like second sight And hearing, catch creation's undersong, And see by inner light.
From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Jean Ingelow
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