roundelay

• The gull goes a-flying in his own way and the mocking-bird sits a-singing his roundelay, original or imitated, just as it comes to him; and neither of them is angry or depressed when a critic makes odious comparisons, because they are both doing the best that they know with "a whole and happy heart." —  Days Off And Other Digressions
• They are soldiers singing A reckless roundelay, upon the eve Of many deaths, it may be of their own Cæs. —  The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry
• Mean time, the song and the roundelay were heard from all quarters; and between Dombasle and Clermont_, as we ascended a wooded height, with the sun setting in a flame of gold, in front--we witnessed a rural sight, connected with the vintage, which was sufficient to realise all the beautiful paintings ever executed by Watteau and Angelis It was late when we reached Chalons_. —  A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three
• Tavena sings a quaint fortune-teller's roundelay ("La stagione arriva"), and in the next scene Mireille has a number of rare beauty ("Ah! —  The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers
• I may instance the opening of the 'roundelay' sung by Menaphon, the only character strictly belonging to pastoral tradition, with its picture of approaching night When tender ewes brought home with evening Sunne Wend to their foldes And to their holdes The shepheards trudge when light of day is done Such as it was, Menaphon appealed in no small degree to the taste of the moment. —  Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England

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