"Roundelay" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and deep, And here and there men stood to reap, One morn I put my heart to sleep, And to the lanes I took my way. The goldfinch on a thistle-head Stood scattering seedlets while she fed; The wrens their pretty gossip spread, Or joined a random roundelay. ...
— Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. • Jean Ingelow
... hand in hand departing, with dance and roundelay, Through hamlet after hamlet, they lead the Count away. They dance through wood and meadow, they dance across the linn, Till the mighty Alpine summits have ...
— Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant - Household Edition • William Cullen Bryant
... words and loving song, We'll chase the lagging hours along, And if { he finds } the maiden coy, I find We'll murmur forth decorous joy, In dreamy roundelay. ...
— The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan - The 14 Gilbert And Sullivan Plays • William Schwenk Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
... to lead the country-round, Youthful Mirtillo, here he comes grief-drown'd. Ambo. Let's cheer him up. Sil. Behold him weeping-ripe. Mir. Ah! Amaryllis, farewell mirth and pipe; Since thou art gone, no more I mean to play To these smooth lawns my mirthful roundelay. Dear Amaryllis! Mon. Hark! Sil. Mark! Mir. This earth grew sweet Where, Amaryllis, thou didst set thy feet. Ambo. Poor pitied youth! Mir. And here the breath of kine And sheep grew more sweet by that breath of thine. This flock of wool and this ...
— The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 • Robert Herrick
... the birds to-day That over my head are winging. There is nothing but glee in the roundelay That I hear them singing, singing. On wings of light, up, out of sight— I watch them airily flying. What do they know of the world below, And the hopes ...
— Yesterdays • Ella Wheeler Wilcox
... as to round the tale with ringing gold, Across the waters from the full-plumed Swan The music of a Mermaid roundelay— Our Lady of the Sea, a Dorian theme Tuned to the soul of ...
— Collected Poems - Volume One (of 2) • Alfred Noyes
... time, and day by day Faces defeat full patiently, And lifts a mirthful roundelay However poor his fortunes be— He will not fail in any qualm Of poverty; the paltry dime— It will grow golden in his palm Who ...
— Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul • Various
... And, humming his rustic roundelay, the yeoman went on his road, the sound of his rough voice gradually dying away as the ...
— Bride of Lammermoor • Sir Walter Scott
... some rustic nook reclining, silken tresses softly twining, Far-off bells so faintly ringing, While we list the blackbird singing, Merrily his roundelay. There! I composed those lines this morning during the process of shaving. I don't think they are very bad. I put them at the beginning of my letter so as to make sure that you will read them, a process of which I might reasonably be doubtful ...
— The Argosy - Vol. 51, No. 6, June, 1891 • Various
... in scarlet red, In scarlet fine and gay; And he did frisk it over the plain, And chanted a roundelay. ...
— Types of Children's Literature • Edited by Walter Barnes
... Summer! We hold thee very dear, as well we may: It is the kernel of the year to-day— All hail to thee! thou art a welcome comer! If every insect were a fairy drummer, And I a fifer that could deftly play, We'd give the old Earth such a roundelay That she would cast all thought of labour from her.— Ah! what is this upon my window-pane? Some sulky, drooping cloud comes pouting up, Stamping its glittering feet along the plain!— Well, I will let that idle fancy drop! Oh, how the spouts are bubbling ...
— Poetical Works of George MacDonald, Vol. 2 • George MacDonald
... distich, lyric, elegy, eclogue, idyl, madrigal, epic, ode, georgic, cid, rondeau, epilogue, epigram, elegiac, roundelay, dithyramb, dithyrambic, doggerel, rhapsody. ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming
... his time, and day by day Faces defeat full patiently, And lifts a mirthful roundelay, However poor his fortunes be—, He will not fail in any qualm Of poverty— the paltry dime It will grow golden in his palm, ...
— Afterwhiles • James Whitcomb Riley
... walking beneath their perpendicular baskets, laden with the most bountiful produce of the vineyard. Such a year of plenty had hardly been remembered within the oldest memory. 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 ...
— A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three • Thomas Frognall Dibdin
... singing a roundelay, And the air was sweet with the breath of May, As a horseman rode thro' the forest way, And he was a Grand Seigneur, my dear, He ...
— The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems • William Henry Drummond
... by giving out a set, I'll take these three dominoes and place them apart; you have to begin by saying something on the first, next, to allude to the second, and, after finishing with all three, to take the name of the whole set and match it with a line, no matter whether it be from some stanza or roundelay, song or idyl, set phrases or proverbs. But they must rhyme. And any one making a mistake will ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book II • Cao Xueqin
... come and play Through the woods their roundelay; Who can tell but only thou, Spirit-ear'd, inspir'ed May, On the bud-embow'r'ed bough What the ...
— Poems • Denis Florence MacCarthy
... his junior was better fitted to cope with a spy than he himself; and gladly taking the other office upon himself, he walked gaily forward, whistling a roundelay as he moved, and affecting not to see the dark figure by the oak, which pressed closer and closer out of sight as ...
— The Secret Chamber at Chad • Evelyn Everett-Green
... thinking his listener had waited long enough for his little aria, he broke out again. "There it is, five notes—a distinct little tune." Why should he sing and no other thrush sing it? There was a robin; but he sang the same little roundelay all the year.... A little, pale-brown bird, fluttering among the bushes, interested her; but it was some time before she could catch fair sight of it. "A dear little wren!" she said. "It must have its nest about here." She sought it, knowing its ...
— Sister Teresa • George Moore
... Nothing was spared which became the dignity of England, her Admiral and her Queen. On calm nights the sea was alive with music. And on board the little flagship Doughty and Drake talked together as those do whose minds answer one another like voices in a roundelay. ...
— Days of the Discoverers • L. Lamprey |
