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

So having said, away she softly past; Weepe, Shepheard! weepe, to make mine undersong.

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

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 Ingelow, Jean

I've made her a bed—'tis here, 'tis there, And she shall wake, be it soon or long, Where grass is green and wild birds sing And the wind makes undersong.

From Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts by Stockton, Frank Richard