canzonet
Example Sentences
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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 Burton Egbert Stevenson
I will have a canzonet made, with nothing in it but sirrah; and the burthen shall be, I come.
From Cynthia's Revels by Ben Jonson
Etienne sang once more the pretty canzonet, with a new expression, a new meaning.
From The Hated Son by Honoré de Balzac
In lighter vein is the canzonet to the lady who swore by her eyes, a custom which was rather common according to the tales of chivalry so popular shortly before this time.
From The Century of Columbus by James J. Walsh
How we sang together the old-fashioned canzonet, 'Love in thine eyes forever plays'?
From A Romance of the Republic by Lydia Maria Francis Child
