英语词汇“roundelay”造句子简单的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

Stay tuned for kidnapping, attempted murder, a roundelay of appearances from past lovers and their lovers, plus wonderful descriptive passages about the sea in all phases of weather. In Praise of Iris Murdoch 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

Mr. Weaver, who is bald, bearded and wears glasses, looks like many other Washington political operatives who roundelay on cable news shows. Will This Guy Shut Off the Lights in the Sanders Campaign? 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z

Throughout these effusive roundelays, they yearn — for meaning, former lovers, lost intimacy, an escape. ‘Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy’ Review: What We Talk About 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

It's a ribald roundelay set on a mythical island. Triple play: 3 engaging Shakespeare shows in Puget Sound parks 2012-07-26T19:53:04Z

The coarser elements in Mr. Wheeler’s book are underscored with an off-putting snigger, as if this romantic roundelay were little more than a galumphing sex farce. Peters and Stritch in ?A Little Night Music? 2010-08-02T01:58:00Z

Fashion’s never-ending game of musical chairs, a nonstop roundelay of personnel moves, tends to confine itself to those who create, rather than observe, fashion. Tim Blanks Joins the Industry Website The Business of Fashion 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z

Recently Ms. Leary found herself in the family reunion and potluck planning roundelay of a famous actress she barely knew. The Perils of Email Auto-Fill 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

The evening becomes a roundelay of insults and accusations in which Vincent is denounced as selfish and Pierre as stingy. Movie Review: ‘What’s in a Name?,’ a Farce About a Fractious Evening 2013-12-12T23:26:35Z

The roundelay continued until we arrived at the stream. At a Namibian sanctuary, you don’t just see the wildlife — you care for them

But the actress maintains a tremulousness, affecting at first, that doesn’t really deepen or expand even as the plot spins from one mistaken amorous roundelay to another. Theater Review: Peter Hall Makes a Dusky Return to Illyria 2011-01-25T12:00:03Z

Designed by David Farley, this production uses projections of snapshots from photo albums to establish time and place as one Anglo-Franco family’s sexual roundelay stretches over the years. London Theater Journal: Apocalypse at the National 2010-08-06T16:25:00Z

In other words, it’s a story of community, in which Wang, filming a mighty roundelay of encounters and relationships in filigreed detail, displays the deep tissue and secret substance of which a community is made. “A Bread Factory,” Reviewed: An Audacious Four-Hour Portrait of Culture Clash in Small-Town New England 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

Daniels, who just collected a Gregory Award for her staging of "Breaking the Code" at Strawberry Theatre Workshop, is excited by the expanded visual palette she can apply to Shakespeare's romantic roundelay. A spooky, dreamy 'Midsummer' to spread its wings 2011-10-20T20:16:08Z

It’s not a narrative concept album, but the songs are connected by recurring threads: a roundelay of infidelities and reunions, betrayals and connections, self-doubt and self-affirmation. SZA Revels in Mixed Emotions on ‘SOS’ 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z

The London week is distinguished among its fellows on the international men’s-wear schedule — namely Florence, Milan and Paris, where the industry roundelay leads editors and buyers next — by its extremes. At London Men’s Fashion Week, Designers Fly the Flag for Individuality 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

In Schnitzler’s influential roundelay a character in a sexual twosome turns up in the next scene with someone else, a pattern that keeps repeating to create a daisy chain of desire. Movie Review: ‘360’ With Anthony Hopkins and Jude Law 2012-08-02T22:00:14Z

The self-satisfied cultural assumptions of the central quartet of “Non-Fiction,” like their social and sexual roundelay, is vacuum-sealed; the characters don’t walk in a street with any life or a city with any people. “Non-Fiction,” Reviewed: A Vacuum-Sealed View of France’s Culturati 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z

The roundelay of Broadway revivals comes around again to this Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic musical, directed by Jack O’Brien and choreographed by Justin Peck. 13 Plays and Musicals to Go to in NYC This Weekend 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

And that’s no joke: in the guise of a frothy romantic roundelay, Ophüls tells a story of life and death that exposes the way of the world by conjuring the world beyond. Max Ophüls’s Unheralded Masterwork “The Tender Enemy” 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

"You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger" is an old-fashioned roundelay in which old marriages crumble and new relationships begin, but one in which nobody gets what they want. Cannes: Woody Allen's "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger" 2010-05-15T23:01:00Z

There’s a roundelay of diplomatic meetings in smoke-filled chambers, as well as a speech before the House of Commons and letters delivered to embassies and other corridors of power. The Plot to Kill Hitler 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

His story opens and closes with a bureaucratic roundelay that many travelers, including those who are not transporting traps or a puma, may find relatable. In ‘The Whispering Land,’ a British naturalist collects travel tales — and animals with tails — in Argentina 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

Ms. Lieberman directs this art world roundelay with vigor, and pricey artworks flit by in zippy video projections. Plays About the Art World? Not Sold 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

The film’s story consists, in large part, of the conflict that Ana faces between squiring Christian through his urgent roundelay of business functions and pushing her own editorial career ahead. “Fifty Shades Darker”: Not Even the Sex Has Personality 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

If this annual vacation roundelay is your only contact, you should initiate some other form of contact with them before you cut this off completely. Perspective | Ask Amy: Sisters don’t want to go on annual family vacation 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z

The Stooges’ bonds of brotherhood may be strong, but they’re ties forged by a choreographed roundelay of resonant whacks and other instances of extreme discipline and punishment. Movie Review: ?The Three Stooges,? From Peter and Bobby Farrelly 2012-04-12T18:27:53Z

Each Couple Is Unhappy in Its Own Way Romantic confusion and youthful insecurity drive “The Happy Sad,” a New York relationship roundelay as restless as the city itself. Movie Review: ‘The Happy Sad,’ Based on Ken Urban’s Play 2013-08-15T23:40:38Z

"The Old Woman" is, in the large scheme of the ever-escalating Wilson World, a road-show roundelay, theater as hit and run. Baryshnikov sings, Dafoe dances in avant-garde 'Old Woman' 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z

Lapine, making his feature film debut, doesn’t have the technique to turn this amatory whirl into a lyrical roundelay. Where you can (and can’t) watch eight of Julian Sands' most notable movie roles 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z

Who this man is and how he relates to the other characters in this drifty ’60s Hong Kong roundelay is a mystery. The essential Tony Leung: Where to find the 'Shang-Chi' standout’s best movies 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

Reality becomes a springboard for a roundelay of ideas. Lucas Hnath Lets Actors Fight It Out Onstage 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z

The movie begins as a buddy-cop procedural and a roundelay of working-class despair, then escalates slowly into a heist-gone-wrong thriller en route to a climactic face-off. Review: ‘Dragged Across Concrete,’ with Mel Gibson, is both moody cop thriller and glib provocation 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z

Seeing is believing, one might say of the eyeball roundelay. Review: Pontormos ‘Visitation,’ a Renaissance masterpiece of extreme imagination, visits the Getty 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

The substance of the show wasn’t that different from “Riverdale”: it offered the usual roundelay of broken hearts, bruised feelings, and hookups. “SKAM,” the Radical Teen Drama That Unfolds One Post at a Time 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

They repeatedly returned to this roundelay, reminiscent of a ritual folk dance, throughout the piece. Dance Theatre of Harlem comes full circle with stirring Broad Stage program 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z

The play’s intricate roundelay of romantic complications and mistaken identities is loosely reproduced in Piñeiro’s clever shuffling of characters, time frames and locations. 'Hermia & Helena,' 'Rat Film' among the highlights of Locarno in Los Angeles 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

Awards season is already enough of a roundelay of self-congratulation when it doesn’t routinely hand over its top prizes to a flattering mirror image. With a 'La La Land' sweep, Hollywood once more falls in love — with itself 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

Then he is downed, too, and the camera is trained on his aggressor; and so forth, in a roundelay of horror that feels as if it could go on forever. The Sadistic Vision of “The Hateful Eight” 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z

Portuguese cooking relies on a roundelay of elemental tastes — garlic, olive oil, wine, lemon, cilantro — that I find irresistible. Portugal’s Heritage, Soaked in Wine and Garlic: A Review of Primavera Pub in Hartford 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

After a bit of stilted small talk for the cameras, Davis did her roundelay of media interviews. Wendy Davis faces uphill battle in Texas governor's race 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

There is undeniably something comic in this roundelay. David Cameron in Mumbai: Europe's passage to India 2013-02-18T21:37:39Z

A young Jewess chants a roundelay: There is a God of Hebrew story. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z

He could draw the price of an ode and a roundelay from the Spectator—but not to-day, for this was a Bank Holiday, Whit Monday, in fact. The Literary Sense 2012-04-02T02:00:28.147Z

The sister of the youth, who had stolen her voice from heaven, sung alternately with her brother——’twas a Gascoigne roundelay. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2012-03-28T02:00:26.907Z

And throughout the visit his voice trilling roundelays in the adjacent pantry made unusual accompaniment to our polite conversation. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z

She picked the leaf and the blossom, And chanted a roundelay. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z

He entertained no gout, no ache he felt, The air was good and temperate, where he dwelt; While mavises and sweet-tongued nightingales Did sing him roundelays and madrigals. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z

During the noontide heat, while their guards were sleeping, they sang a Spanish roundelay to the accompaniment of the guitar. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z

Sweet is rose-ruddy wine in goblets gay, And sweet are lute and harp and roundelay; But for the zealot who ignores the cup, 'Tis sweet when he is twenty leagues away! The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z

The smell of the morning that lurks in the hay, The swish of the scythe And the roundelay Of the meadow-lark as he wings away, Are the joys of a summer morning. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z

These are not great; he has no roundelay; he neither warbles nor carols; he does not even twitter. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z

Then they took hands, and dancing slowly around the time-honored mansion, sang this roundelay, framed in the words of their own beloved poet:— Strength to his hours of manly toil! Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z

Our long-dead brothers of the roundelay, Whose meed was wine, who held that praise was pay, Hearten ye by their lives, ye singers of to-day! Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z

Yea, I will soar to thee, in roundelay, In shine and shower, and make a bold assay Of each fond hope, to compass thee aright. Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems 2011-10-08T02:00:23.627Z

But they do know: and for them it is to chant broken-hearted the refrain of his own roundelay, My love is dead, Gone to his death bed All under the willow tree. English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z

Only an occasional robin sang a bar or two of his roundelay, or a chiff-chaff, who had forgotten the rhythm of his call, cried 'chaff-chaff' in the beech trees. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z

So let us sing a roundelay— Pop goes the Weazel; Treacle's four pence a pound to-day, Which we think will please all! The Zankiwank and The Bletherwitch An Original Fantastic Fairy Extravaganza 2011-08-19T02:00:16.653Z

“You don’t mean to say you been caroling your roundelays in that place?” The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z

I The shadows sit and stand about its door Like uninvited guests and poor; And all the long, hot summer day The grating locust dins its roundelay In one old sycamore. Kentucky Poems 2011-07-11T02:00:07.060Z

The merry lark, Calls us to the new mown hay, Piping to our roundelay. The Battle of Hexham; or, Days of Old; a play in three acts 2011-06-26T02:00:10.547Z

Keats calls the piece a ‘roundelay,’—a form which it only so far resembles that its opening measures are repeated at the close. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z

A morning music thou must have, A waking roundelay. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z

Cuddle down, dear Sleepy Eyes, Underneath the counterpane, Till the robin in the lane Sings his morning roundelay, And it's time again for play. Little Jack Rabbit and Chippy Chipmunk 2011-05-09T02:00:03.903Z

Both are silent, as though listening to the plash of the oar-blades, or the roundelay of late singing birds on the river's bank. Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z

The merry lark, Calls us to the new mown hay, Piping to our roundelay. The Battle of Hexham; or, Days of Old; a play in three acts 2011-06-26T02:00:10.547Z

“Did you enjoy my little roundelay?” she inquired anxiously. Peggy Parsons at Prep School 2011-04-01T02:00:43.170Z

Farandola and roundelay, And the mad songs of pride, In sudden waves over the threshold glide, And through the chambers sway. Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell 2011-03-10T03:00:44.993Z

To feast the rosy hours away, To revel in a roundelay! Lewis Carroll in Wonderland and at Home The Story of His Life 2011-03-01T03:00:47.317Z

“I don’t bother my head about ‘coral roundelay’ or ‘seraph-eyed medicament.’ The Dreamers A Club 2011-02-25T03:01:06.720Z

The merry lark, While they tumble in the hay, Pipes alone his roundelay. The Battle of Hexham; or, Days of Old; a play in three acts 2011-06-26T02:00:10.547Z

Musa Madrigalesca; or a collection of madrigals, ballets, roundelays, etc., chiefly of the Elizabeth age; with remarks and annotations. A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 2 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:34.387Z

Both are silent, as though listening to the plash of the oar-blades, or the roundelay of late singing birds on the river’s bank. Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z

Trill me a moonlight roundelay, such as inspires the feet of fairies; make me see the wood violets nodding in the warm dusk, and let me hear the drone of bees in the tiger-lily's cup. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z

Or art thou just content to sit and say Life’s but a specious, coral roundelay?” The Dreamers A Club 2011-02-25T03:01:06.720Z

The taverns rang with the roundelay of the licentious and intemperate—"The king shall enjoy his own again." London in Modern Times or, Sketches of the English Metropolis during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. 2011-01-28T03:00:22.900Z

My master glides under a balcony that is shut with lattices, takes the guitar from my hands, and there you have him warbling his roundelay. The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z

"With all thy rural echoes come, Sweet comrade of the rosy day, Wafting the wild bee's gentle hum, Or cuckoo's plaintive roundelay." The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z

I did not know that clouds of spray Splashed as they fell, a roundelay. Provocations

But what do you make out of ‘coral roundelay’?” The Dreamers A Club 2011-02-25T03:01:06.720Z

Besides all the rest, rosy linnets and blue lazuli buntings made the old tree ring with their musical roundelays. A-Birding on a Bronco

He has rendered kiss for kiss, he has charmed the ears with his roundelays and the eyes with his plumage. The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades

But thou, O cricket, with thy roundelay, Shalt laugh them all to scorn! The Old Soldiers Story Poems and Prose Sketches

Keep the fragments, little earth-men, dance and play, 'Tis a dainty roundelay, Hold it, pray; hold it, pray. Provocations

O sing unto my roundelay, O drop the briny tear with me, Dance no more at holy-day, Like a running river be. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History

While words of congratulation were passing from mouth to mouth, the blow descended, and “turned to groans their roundelay.” Tales from "Blackwood," Volume 2

There the lithe minstrel sung his roundelay:190 Listen, lords and ladies bright! The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 2

Robin rose up early, Before the break of day; He flew to Jenny Wren's house, To sing a roundelay. The Adventures of Puss in Boots, Jr.

I. The shadows sit and stand within its door Like uninvited guests and poor, And all the long, hot summer day A dry green locust whirs its roundelay, And the shadows halt at the door. Blooms of the Berry

For her, of buttercups and violets, A circlet for her hair he makes; And sings, in roundelays and triolets, A song that soon her fancy takes. The Scarlet Stigma A Drama in Four Acts

Like Nietzsche he dances when his heart is heavy, and trills his roundelays and his gamut of rancorous flowers with an enigmatic smile on his lips. Ivory Apes and Peacocks

M. �loin, sycophant, courtier, had never sung for his royal patron a roundelay more pleasing than his prose of the moment. The Missourian

Still I catch the scent of the rose And hear the white-throat’s roundelay, Footing the trail that Memory knows, Over the hills and far away. A line-o'-verse or two

Then he began to hum a hoary roundelay about the splendid audacity of old Mister Haystack and his questionable adventures, set to an unprintable refrain of "Winktum bolly mitch-a-kimo," or some such jumble of words. Dwellers in the Hills

For her, of buttercups and violets, A circlet for her hair he makes; And sings, in roundelays and triolets, A song that soon her fancy takes. The Scarlet Stigma A Drama in Four Acts

The fairies were singing a roundelay; and, as the melody floated over the water, Victor and Blanche listened with throbbing hearts. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales

Now, gentlemen labourers, a lusty roundelay after the toils of the day; and then to a sound sleep, in houses of our own building. The Indian Princess La Belle Sauvage

W—— paused for another second or two; but then went on with his roundelay. Practical Education, Volume I

All the fields were bordered with a fringe of feathery green bushes, from which rose the sweet roundelays of the song sparrows. In Orchard Glen

Song and roundelay, timbrels and harp, accompanied our forefathers on their wanderings, and preceded the armed men into battle. Jewish Literature and Other Essays

My merry, merry, merry roundelay Concludes with Cupid's curse: They that do change old love for new, Pray gods, they change for worse! Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

Or was’t the stripling Youth, whose roundelay Awoke the echoes of the throbbing day And changed to gladness all the world’s dull mien, Glad roads of Spring? The Rose-Jar

O sing unto my roundelay; O drop the briny tear with me; Dance no more at holiday; Like a running river be; My love is dead, Gone to his death-bed, All under the willow-tree. The Children's Garland from the Best Poets

The fairies were singing a roundelay; and, as the melody floated over the waters, Victor and Blanche listened with throbbing hearts. Fairy Book

And by night about the crackling camp fire our happy voices, all united, are uplifted in song and roundelay. Fibble, D.D.

Now will we dance and sport and play And sing a merry roundelay. Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age

Is this more pleasant to you than the whir Of meadow lark, and its sweet roundelay, Or twitter of little fieldfares, as you take Your nooning in the shade of bush and brake? Conservation Reader

Yet Villon wrote his roundelays, And that sweet singer Horace; But I will sing of other days In praise of Clara Morris. Poems for Pale People A Volume of Verse

A robin trilled a roundelay from some neighboring branch. The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley

The whole valley seemed to be transfigured by their roundelays, which have about them such an air of poetry and old-world romance. Birds of the Rockies

The youngster was clothed in scarlet red, In scarlet fine and gay, And he did frisk it over the plain, And chanted a roundelay. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes

The youngster was clothed in scarlet red, In scarlet fine and gay; And he did frisk it o'er the plain, And chaunted a roundelay. The Book of Brave Old Ballads

Oh listen to my roundelay, Oh listen a while to me, And I'll tell ye of a deadly feud That fell out in the north countrie. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2

Is this more pleasant to you than the whirr Of meadow-lark, and its sweet roundelay, Or twitter of little field-fares, as you take Your nooning in the shade of bush and brake? Tales of a Wayside Inn

Robin rose up early, at the break of day; He flew to Jenny Wren’s house, to sing a roundelay. Aunt Kitty's Stories

The Reg'lar Lark's a very gay old Bird; At sunrise often may his voice be heard As jauntily he wends his homeward way, And trills a fresh and merry roundelay. A Phenomenal Fauna

I sing a pensive roundelay To sweethearts of a doubtful lot, The passions vanished in a day— The little loves that I've forgot. The Book of Humorous Verse

Steenie was humming a plaintive ditty, or rather dirge; for it partook of a double character, something between an alehouse roundelay and a funeral chant. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2

Surveyors were running lines and making plats in the suburbs, peeped at by gophers, and greeted by the roundelays of meadow-larks. Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic

Their aspirations of a kindred hope had mingled in the majestic psalm; a larger harmony, remote from roundelay, or sparkling cadenza, that drew him to this Calvin maid. Under the Rose

Arn.‍They are soldiers singing A reckless roundelay, upon the eve Of many deaths, it may be of their own. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry

His smile was bright and his skip was light As he chirruped his roundelay. The Book of Humorous Verse

Valiant was the watch on wall, Kindly, quick of wit withal. p. 39He struck up a roundelay Very seasonably gay. Aucassin and Nicolette translated from the Old French

His roundelay Rang gaily on the stair; and then the door Opened and—closed. . . . Riley Songs of Friendship

Dear friends, my subjects, it is May; Let us sing Spring's roundelay. Ohio Arbor Day 1913: Arbor and Bird Day Manual Issued for the Benefit of the Schools of our State

OH, sing unto my roundelay; Oh, drop the briny tear with me; Dance no more at holiday, Like a running river be; My love is dead, Gone to his death-bed, All under the willow-tree. English Songs and Ballads

For the Dinkey-Bird's bravuras And staccatos are so sweet— His roulades, appogiaturas, And robustos so complete, That the youth of every nation— Be they near or far away— Have especial delectation In that gladsome roundelay. The Book of Humorous Verse

It were unwisely done, should we refuse To cheer our path, as featly as we may— Our lonely path to cheer, as travellers use, With merry song, quaint tale, or roundelay. Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries

Never pipe could ever play Better shepherd's roundelay. Pastoral Poems by Nicholas Breton, Selected Poetry by George Wither, and Pastoral Poetry by William Browne (of Tavistock)

O sing unto my roundelay, O drop the briny tear with me, Dance no more on holy-day, Like a running river be. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2

No, let us sing some roundelays To make our mirth the fuller: And, while we thus inspirèd sing, Let all the streets with echoes ring; Woods, and hills, and everything, Bear witness we are merry! English Songs and Ballads

Wilt thou waken, bride of May, While flowers are fresh, and sweet bells chime, Listen and learn from my roundelay How all life’s pilot boats sailed one day A match with Time! Jacob Faithful

No, let us sing some roundelays, To make our mirth the fuller. Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries

Friends, thank you one and all; excuse my tear, Domestic trouble makes me feel so queer; But if you like, to celebrate this day I sing you here one final roundelay. Boycotted And Other Stories

With the laverock's lyric our fancy filled the sky—with the throstle's roundelay it awoke the wood. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2

After a long interval, during which a robin piped a merry roundelay from the depths of a neighboring pink hawthorn, Coke dug out a question. The Stowaway Girl

Story so tender, Old and gray; Yet sing again Love’s roundelay— Ah! The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison

Through, through the livelong day Soundeth thy roundelay, Never its accents may Pall on mine ear:— Come, take a bribe of me! Japanese Literature Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical Poetry and Drama of Japan

For tropic airs are blowing As soft as whispered roundelay From unseen lips that seem to say To feathered songsters going To sunnier, southern climes afar, "Stay where you are—stay where you are!" Poems Vol. IV

The heavens and the earth do play Upon us, if we be in tune: Winter shouts hoarse his roundelay, And tender sweet pipes June. Our Unitarian Gospel

Listen, and learn from my roundelay, How all life’s pilot-boats sailed one day, A match with time. The Poetry of Wales

Where gleamed the guile of moonlight's smile, Once paused I, listening for a while, And heard the lay, unknown by day,— The fairies' dancing roundelay. The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar

The drum beat a roundelay that set our blood hopping. Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade

A roundelay, which might be styled the Praise of May or the exhortation to be liberal in love by The Example of the Rose, shall follow. Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse

But God meant music; and we may, If we will keep our lives in tune, Hear the whole year sing roundelay, December answering June. Our Unitarian Gospel

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

Then join," he saith, "my roundelay; Curse God and die, and make an end. Successful Recitations

I can smile," quoth Ganymede, "at the sonettos, canzones, madrigals, rounds and roundelays, that these pensive patients pour out when their eyes are more full of wantonness, than their hearts of passions. Rosalynde or, Euphues' Golden Legacy

My dear Dad,—In some rustic nook reclining, silken tresses softly twining, Far-off bells so faintly ringing, While we list the blackbird singing, Merrily his roundelay. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 6, June, 1891

As the day drew to its close, "the wearied huntsmen, with their fair attendants, returned, 'midst the sounds of martial music and the low whispered roundelays of the ladies, victorious to the castle." Strange Pages from Family Papers

Abroad he spread a cloak of red, A cloak of scarlet fine and gay, Again and again, he frisked over the plain, And merrily chanted a roundelay. The House of Walderne A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars

I remembered a roundelay that we had sung in camp. Montlivet

Are these the passions you painted out so in your sonnets and roundelays? Rosalynde or, Euphues' Golden Legacy

Is this more pleasant to you than the whirr Of meadow-lark, and its sweet roundelay, Or twitter of little fieldfares, as you take Your nooning in the shade of bush and brake? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863

What care I for their pranks, However they may lovers choose to aid, Or dance their roundelays on flow'ry banks?— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood

My kids to hear the rimes and roundelays Which I on wasteful hills was wont to sing, Did more delight the lark in summer days, Whose echo made the neighbour groves to ring. Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Idea, Fidesa and Chloris

Witness those rings and roundelays Of theirs, which yet remain, Were footed in Queen Mary's days On many a grassy plain. The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream'

I hear the songs of golden days Fall softly on the saddened years, But know not whose the hungry ears First feasted on the roundelays. Oklahoma and Other Poems

She gently pushed the chair back from the table, quietly adjusted the sleeve which she had drawn upward from her wrist, and slowly walked out of the room, softly humming the refrain of a roundelay. Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall

Courteously on you I call; Listen well to what I sing: For my roundelay to all May perchance instruction bring, And of life good lessoning.— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series

There was a robin; but he sang the same little roundelay all the year…. Sister Teresa

The roundelay still sounds away, The wail and the wild ha, ha, ha, ha! Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV.

For he lies thus, and she, the wild swan's way, Hath trod her last long weeping roundelay, And lies, his lover, ravisht o'er the main For his bed's comfort and my deep disdain. The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes

In the woods the leaves are green, In the woods a golden sheen Falls upon the flowers; In the woods the robin gay Sings a happy roundelay, Perched in bloomy bowers. Dew Drops, Vol. 37, No. 17, April 26, 1914

Most given was Yoomy to amorous melodies, and rondos, and roundelays, very witching to hear. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I

Give me an elfin, frolic MAY, No Queen with hoarse cadenzas, Who pipes a frozen roundelay Of spiteful influenzas. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 16, 1891

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.

Is this more pleasant to you than the whir Of meadow-lark, and her sweet roundelay, Or twitter of little field-fares, as you take Your nooning in the shade of bush and brake? Voices for the Speechless

Wingèd minstrels come and play Through the woods their roundelay; Who can tell but only thou, Spirit-ear'd, inspirèd May, On the bud-embow'rèd bough What the happy lyrists say? Poems

In this drama is the exquisite melody, "O, sing unto my roundelay!" with which every one is familiar, as it is introduced into all our popular selections from the poets. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 332, June, 1843

Lovers and such may sing a roundelay, Whate'er that be, to greet returning May; For me, not much—the season's all too short; I hear the mower hum and scent the fray. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 14, 1919

The sound of clattering hoofs and rumbling wheels, of tinkling guitars and gay roundelays, rose out of that obscure distance, seeming far off and plaintive like the dream of a life that is past. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862

Sing away, ay, sing away, Merry little bird, Always gayest of the gay, Though a woodland roundelay You ne'er sung nor heard; Though your life from youth to age Passes in a narrow cage. Voices for the Speechless

That Bowzybeus, who with jocund tongue, Ballads, and roundelays, and catches sung. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook

The youngster was clothed in scarlet red In scarlet fine and gay; And he did frisk it o'er the plain, And chanted a roundelay. Robin Hood

There came three merry men from south, west, and north, Ever more sing the roundelay; To win the Widow of Wycombe forth, And where was the widow might say them nay? Ivanhoe

He plucked one to him, and in a moment the air was full of tender liquid notes - a thrush’s roundelay. Gathering of Brother Hilarius

And with their pleasant roundelays Bid welcome to the spring: Then care away, etc. The Compleat Angler

But if their talk were foul, Then would he whistle rapid as any lark, Or carol some old roundelay, and so loud That first they mocked, but, after, reverenced him. Idylls of the King

Anon he chanted a roundelay with a merry note. Robin Hood

The next that came forth, swore by blood and by nails, Merrily sing the roundelay; Hur's a gentleman, God wot, and hur's lineage was of Wales, And where was the widow might say him nay? Ivanhoe

The rustic who follows the plow through furrowed fields, unkempt, clownish, toil-stained, weary and overworked, may brawl raucous roundelay at even-tide and enjoy the fullness of earthly bliss. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10

The April wind was filling the pine trees with its roundelay, and the grove was alive with robins—great, plump, saucy fellows, strutting along the paths. Anne of the Island

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.— The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2

To see you come tripping along decked out in all your gay plumage and trolling forth a roundelay, one would think you had not a care in all the world. Robin Hood

The first was a knight, and from Tynedale he came, Ever more sing the roundelay; And his fathers, God save us, were men of great fame, And where was the widow might say him nay? Ivanhoe

May there be some clear little stream just behind you, laughing along its idle way;—some chirping birds, singing their roundelay—some buzzing flies—you will then be lulled into doziness. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 266, July 28, 1827

Ah! will any minstrel say, In his sweetest roundelay, What is sweeter, after all, Than black haws, in early Fall— Fruit so sweet the frost first sat, Dainty-toothed, and nibbled at! Riley Child-Rhymes

He kiss'd his balmy spouse with wanton play, And feebly sung a lusty roundelay: Then on the couch his weary limbs he cast; 390 For every labour must have rest at last. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2

The youngster was clad in scarlet red, In scarlet fine and gay And he did frisk it over the plain, And chaunted a roundelay. The Book of Old English Ballads

Of his father the laird, of his uncle the squire, He boasted in rhyme and in roundelay; She bade him go bask by his sea-coal fire, For she was the widow would say him nay. Ivanhoe

I love on mossy couch to sing A Spanish roundelay, And see my sweet companions Around commingling gay,— A roving band, light-hearted, In frolicsome array,— Who 'neath the screening parasols Dance down the merry day. Poems

I doubt not that the Puritan youth, debarred of merry catches and roundelays, found keen delight in these rather astonishing renditions of the songs of Solomon, portions of Isaiah, etc. Sabbath in Puritan New England

The cowboy and the new milch cow carol their roundelay. Remarks

Then, a little while after she had said her petty devotions, he sat down close by her upon the same bench, and gave her this roundelay in writing, in manner as followeth. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2

But then next came a yeoman, a yeoman of Kent, Jollily singing his roundelay; He spoke to the widow of living and rent, And where was the widow could say him nay? Ivanhoe

Let us sing, let us drink, and tune up our roundelays. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1

Sing if ever ye sang of yore, When in sunny and glorious days Through the rushes and marsh-flags springing On we swept, in the joy of singing Myriad-divine roundelays. The Frogs

The youngster was cloathed in scarlet red, In scarlet fine and gay; And he did frisk it over the plain, And chanted a roundelay. Ballad Book

Over the heath, over the moor, and over the dale, ��"Swinging slow with sullen roar," Dance, dance away the jocund roundelay! The Poetical Works of Henry Kirk White : With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas

Few more exquisite specimens of this kind can be found in our language than the Minstrel's song in Aella, beginning, O sing unto my roundelay. Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives

Then back to camp, with trumpet's bray, We hied in joyful haste; And wife and child, with roundelay, With clanging cup and waltzes gay, Our glorious triumph graced. The Poems of Schiller — First period

Below Therese, some tarts from the Latin Quarter were dancing in a ring on a patch of worn turf singing an infantine roundelay. Theresa Raquin

A little bird woke singing in the night, Dreaming of coming day, And piped, for very fulness of delight, His little roundelay. The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems

The youngster was clothed 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

Gay roundelays, swift, passionate Hungarian dances, bold Wagnerian strains followed in quick succession, and the more utter her abandon the more certainly she felt the younger man respond. The Silver Horde

Eight joyous, happy creatures trip past you, some with tambourines, others with pipes sounding roundelays, or carrying festoons of flowers. Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts

The graceful, happy creatures with garlands and fruits glide past you in song, shaking the tambourine or softly piping their roundelays. Palaces and Courts of the Exposition

That can no murmur be; 'T is the water-nymphs, that are singing Their roundelays under me. Hyperion

In a cracked and tuneless voice he began humming a roundelay, evidently intended to express gaiety and contentment. The Winds of Chance

If genius summons the god Pan to pipe a roundelay, pipings there shall be! God's Good Man

There is nothing but glee in the roundelay That I hear them singing, singing. Yesterdays

Had he been a bulbul and continued to feel as he did, he would have poured into the ear of night such roundelays as had never been conceived of by that disciplined singer. The Reign of Law; a tale of the Kentucky hemp fields

Two of the youngest and most joyous began a roundelay; but the storm howled and raged so wildly without, that this too was soon interrupted. Sintram and His Companions

Now, O now, we hear no more The vilanelle and roundelay! Chamber Music

For the Dinkey-Bird's bravuras And staccatos are so sweet— His roulades, appoggiaturas, And robustos so complete, That the youth of every nation— Be they near or far away— Have especial delectation In that gladsome roundelay. Love-Songs of Childhood

And I heard the thud of his horse’s feet Beating a roundelay. Yesterdays

From "Aella" Oh sing unto my roundelay; Oh drop the briny tear with me; Dance no more at holiday; Like a running river be! The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2

Lads and lasses, trip away to the cheerful roundelay! Poems

And ask, whether Wisdom is born of blood-heat; Or of other than Wisdom comes victory here; - Aught more than the banquet and roundelay, That is closed with a terrible terminal wail, A retributive black ding-dong? Poems — Volume 3

Is this more pleasant to you than the whir Of meadow-lark, and her sweet roundelay, Or twitter of little field-fares, as you take Your nooning in the shade of bush and brake? The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Whether the aphorism were universally true was not very material to the gallant captain, whose sole ambition at present was to construct a roundelay of which this should be the prevailing sentiment. Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space

My love can pipe, my love can sing, My love can many a pretty thing, And of his lovely praises ring My merry, merry, merry roundelays Amen to Cupid's curse,— 'They that do change,' etc. Bulchevy's Book of English Verse

Ah, Amarillis! farewell mirth and pipe; Since thou art gone, no more I mean to play To these smooth lawns, my mirthful roundelay. A selection from the lyrical poems of Robert Herrick

The modern donkey pokes its head out of the lion's skin of old Rome, and brays out the absurdest of asinine roundelays. Life of John Sterling

The sister of the youth, who had stolen her voice from heaven, sung alternately with her brother—'twas a Gascoigne roundelay. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

As doth the billow there upon Charybdis, That breaks itself on that which it encounters, So here the folk must dance their roundelay. Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete

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例句	roundelay Stay tuned for kidnapping, attempted murder, a roundelay of appearances from past lovers and their lovers, plus wonderful descriptive passages about the sea in all phases of weather. In Praise of Iris Murdoch 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z Mr. Weaver, who is bald, bearded and wears glasses, looks like many other Washington political operatives who roundelay on cable news shows. Will This Guy Shut Off the Lights in the Sanders Campaign? 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z Throughout these effusive roundelays, they yearn — for meaning, former lovers, lost intimacy, an escape. ‘Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy’ Review: What We Talk About 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z It's a ribald roundelay set on a mythical island. Triple play: 3 engaging Shakespeare shows in Puget Sound parks 2012-07-26T19:53:04Z The coarser elements in Mr. Wheeler’s book are underscored with an off-putting snigger, as if this romantic roundelay were little more than a galumphing sex farce. Peters and Stritch in ?A Little Night Music? 2010-08-02T01:58:00Z Fashion’s never-ending game of musical chairs, a nonstop roundelay of personnel moves, tends to confine itself to those who create, rather than observe, fashion. Tim Blanks Joins the Industry Website The Business of Fashion 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z Recently Ms. Leary found herself in the family reunion and potluck planning roundelay of a famous actress she barely knew. The Perils of Email Auto-Fill 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z The evening becomes a roundelay of insults and accusations in which Vincent is denounced as selfish and Pierre as stingy. Movie Review: ‘What’s in a Name?,’ a Farce About a Fractious Evening 2013-12-12T23:26:35Z The roundelay continued until we arrived at the stream. At a Namibian sanctuary, you don’t just see the wildlife — you care for them But the actress maintains a tremulousness, affecting at first, that doesn’t really deepen or expand even as the plot spins from one mistaken amorous roundelay to another. Theater Review: Peter Hall Makes a Dusky Return to Illyria 2011-01-25T12:00:03Z Designed by David Farley, this production uses projections of snapshots from photo albums to establish time and place as one Anglo-Franco family’s sexual roundelay stretches over the years. London Theater Journal: Apocalypse at the National 2010-08-06T16:25:00Z In other words, it’s a story of community, in which Wang, filming a mighty roundelay of encounters and relationships in filigreed detail, displays the deep tissue and secret substance of which a community is made. “A Bread Factory,” Reviewed: An Audacious Four-Hour Portrait of Culture Clash in Small-Town New England 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Daniels, who just collected a Gregory Award for her staging of "Breaking the Code" at Strawberry Theatre Workshop, is excited by the expanded visual palette she can apply to Shakespeare's romantic roundelay. A spooky, dreamy 'Midsummer' to spread its wings 2011-10-20T20:16:08Z It’s not a narrative concept album, but the songs are connected by recurring threads: a roundelay of infidelities and reunions, betrayals and connections, self-doubt and self-affirmation. SZA Revels in Mixed Emotions on ‘SOS’ 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z The London week is distinguished among its fellows on the international men’s-wear schedule — namely Florence, Milan and Paris, where the industry roundelay leads editors and buyers next — by its extremes. At London Men’s Fashion Week, Designers Fly the Flag for Individuality 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z In Schnitzler’s influential roundelay a character in a sexual twosome turns up in the next scene with someone else, a pattern that keeps repeating to create a daisy chain of desire. Movie Review: ‘360’ With Anthony Hopkins and Jude Law 2012-08-02T22:00:14Z The self-satisfied cultural assumptions of the central quartet of “Non-Fiction,” like their social and sexual roundelay, is vacuum-sealed; the characters don’t walk in a street with any life or a city with any people. “Non-Fiction,” Reviewed: A Vacuum-Sealed View of France’s Culturati 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z The roundelay of Broadway revivals comes around again to this Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic musical, directed by Jack O’Brien and choreographed by Justin Peck. 13 Plays and Musicals to Go to in NYC This Weekend 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z And that’s no joke: in the guise of a frothy romantic roundelay, Ophüls tells a story of life and death that exposes the way of the world by conjuring the world beyond. Max Ophüls’s Unheralded Masterwork “The Tender Enemy” 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger" is an old-fashioned roundelay in which old marriages crumble and new relationships begin, but one in which nobody gets what they want. Cannes: Woody Allen's "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger" 2010-05-15T23:01:00Z There’s a roundelay of diplomatic meetings in smoke-filled chambers, as well as a speech before the House of Commons and letters delivered to embassies and other corridors of power. The Plot to Kill Hitler 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z His story opens and closes with a bureaucratic roundelay that many travelers, including those who are not transporting traps or a puma, may find relatable. In ‘The Whispering Land,’ a British naturalist collects travel tales — and animals with tails — in Argentina 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z Ms. Lieberman directs this art world roundelay with vigor, and pricey artworks flit by in zippy video projections. Plays About the Art World? Not Sold 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z The film’s story consists, in large part, of the conflict that Ana faces between squiring Christian through his urgent roundelay of business functions and pushing her own editorial career ahead. “Fifty Shades Darker”: Not Even the Sex Has Personality 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z If this annual vacation roundelay is your only contact, you should initiate some other form of contact with them before you cut this off completely. Perspective \| Ask Amy: Sisters don’t want to go on annual family vacation 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z The Stooges’ bonds of brotherhood may be strong, but they’re ties forged by a choreographed roundelay of resonant whacks and other instances of extreme discipline and punishment. Movie Review: ?The Three Stooges,? From Peter and Bobby Farrelly 2012-04-12T18:27:53Z Each Couple Is Unhappy in Its Own Way Romantic confusion and youthful insecurity drive “The Happy Sad,” a New York relationship roundelay as restless as the city itself. Movie Review: ‘The Happy Sad,’ Based on Ken Urban’s Play 2013-08-15T23:40:38Z "The Old Woman" is, in the large scheme of the ever-escalating Wilson World, a road-show roundelay, theater as hit and run. Baryshnikov sings, Dafoe dances in avant-garde 'Old Woman' 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z Lapine, making his feature film debut, doesn’t have the technique to turn this amatory whirl into a lyrical roundelay. Where you can (and can’t) watch eight of Julian Sands' most notable movie roles 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z Who this man is and how he relates to the other characters in this drifty ’60s Hong Kong roundelay is a mystery. The essential Tony Leung: Where to find the 'Shang-Chi' standout’s best movies 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z Reality becomes a springboard for a roundelay of ideas. Lucas Hnath Lets Actors Fight It Out Onstage 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z The movie begins as a buddy-cop procedural and a roundelay of working-class despair, then escalates slowly into a heist-gone-wrong thriller en route to a climactic face-off. Review: ‘Dragged Across Concrete,’ with Mel Gibson, is both moody cop thriller and glib provocation 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Seeing is believing, one might say of the eyeball roundelay. Review: Pontormos ‘Visitation,’ a Renaissance masterpiece of extreme imagination, visits the Getty 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z The substance of the show wasn’t that different from “Riverdale”: it offered the usual roundelay of broken hearts, bruised feelings, and hookups. “SKAM,” the Radical Teen Drama That Unfolds One Post at a Time 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z They repeatedly returned to this roundelay, reminiscent of a ritual folk dance, throughout the piece. Dance Theatre of Harlem comes full circle with stirring Broad Stage program 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z The play’s intricate roundelay of romantic complications and mistaken identities is loosely reproduced in Piñeiro’s clever shuffling of characters, time frames and locations. 'Hermia & Helena,' 'Rat Film' among the highlights of Locarno in Los Angeles 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Awards season is already enough of a roundelay of self-congratulation when it doesn’t routinely hand over its top prizes to a flattering mirror image. With a 'La La Land' sweep, Hollywood once more falls in love — with itself 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z Then he is downed, too, and the camera is trained on his aggressor; and so forth, in a roundelay of horror that feels as if it could go on forever. The Sadistic Vision of “The Hateful Eight” 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z Portuguese cooking relies on a roundelay of elemental tastes — garlic, olive oil, wine, lemon, cilantro — that I find irresistible. Portugal’s Heritage, Soaked in Wine and Garlic: A Review of Primavera Pub in Hartford 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z After a bit of stilted small talk for the cameras, Davis did her roundelay of media interviews. Wendy Davis faces uphill battle in Texas governor's race 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z There is undeniably something comic in this roundelay. David Cameron in Mumbai: Europe's passage to India 2013-02-18T21:37:39Z A young Jewess chants a roundelay: There is a God of Hebrew story. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z He could draw the price of an ode and a roundelay from the Spectator—but not to-day, for this was a Bank Holiday, Whit Monday, in fact. The Literary Sense 2012-04-02T02:00:28.147Z The sister of the youth, who had stolen her voice from heaven, sung alternately with her brother——’twas a Gascoigne roundelay. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2012-03-28T02:00:26.907Z And throughout the visit his voice trilling roundelays in the adjacent pantry made unusual accompaniment to our polite conversation. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z She picked the leaf and the blossom, And chanted a roundelay. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z He entertained no gout, no ache he felt, The air was good and temperate, where he dwelt; While mavises and sweet-tongued nightingales Did sing him roundelays and madrigals. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z During the noontide heat, while their guards were sleeping, they sang a Spanish roundelay to the accompaniment of the guitar. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z Sweet is rose-ruddy wine in goblets gay, And sweet are lute and harp and roundelay; But for the zealot who ignores the cup, 'Tis sweet when he is twenty leagues away! The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z The smell of the morning that lurks in the hay, The swish of the scythe And the roundelay Of the meadow-lark as he wings away, Are the joys of a summer morning. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z These are not great; he has no roundelay; he neither warbles nor carols; he does not even twitter. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z Then they took hands, and dancing slowly around the time-honored mansion, sang this roundelay, framed in the words of their own beloved poet:— Strength to his hours of manly toil! Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z Our long-dead brothers of the roundelay, Whose meed was wine, who held that praise was pay, Hearten ye by their lives, ye singers of to-day! Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z Yea, I will soar to thee, in roundelay, In shine and shower, and make a bold assay Of each fond hope, to compass thee aright. Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems 2011-10-08T02:00:23.627Z But they do know: and for them it is to chant broken-hearted the refrain of his own roundelay, My love is dead, Gone to his death bed All under the willow tree. English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z Only an occasional robin sang a bar or two of his roundelay, or a chiff-chaff, who had forgotten the rhythm of his call, cried 'chaff-chaff' in the beech trees. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z So let us sing a roundelay— Pop goes the Weazel; Treacle's four pence a pound to-day, Which we think will please all! The Zankiwank and The Bletherwitch An Original Fantastic Fairy Extravaganza 2011-08-19T02:00:16.653Z “You don’t mean to say you been caroling your roundelays in that place?” The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z I The shadows sit and stand about its door Like uninvited guests and poor; And all the long, hot summer day The grating locust dins its roundelay In one old sycamore. Kentucky Poems 2011-07-11T02:00:07.060Z The merry lark, Calls us to the new mown hay, Piping to our roundelay. The Battle of Hexham; or, Days of Old; a play in three acts 2011-06-26T02:00:10.547Z Keats calls the piece a ‘roundelay,’—a form which it only so far resembles that its opening measures are repeated at the close. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z A morning music thou must have, A waking roundelay. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z Cuddle down, dear Sleepy Eyes, Underneath the counterpane, Till the robin in the lane Sings his morning roundelay, And it's time again for play. Little Jack Rabbit and Chippy Chipmunk 2011-05-09T02:00:03.903Z Both are silent, as though listening to the plash of the oar-blades, or the roundelay of late singing birds on the river's bank. Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z The merry lark, Calls us to the new mown hay, Piping to our roundelay. The Battle of Hexham; or, Days of Old; a play in three acts 2011-06-26T02:00:10.547Z “Did you enjoy my little roundelay?” she inquired anxiously. Peggy Parsons at Prep School 2011-04-01T02:00:43.170Z Farandola and roundelay, And the mad songs of pride, In sudden waves over the threshold glide, And through the chambers sway. Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell 2011-03-10T03:00:44.993Z To feast the rosy hours away, To revel in a roundelay! Lewis Carroll in Wonderland and at Home The Story of His Life 2011-03-01T03:00:47.317Z “I don’t bother my head about ‘coral roundelay’ or ‘seraph-eyed medicament.’ The Dreamers A Club 2011-02-25T03:01:06.720Z The merry lark, While they tumble in the hay, Pipes alone his roundelay. The Battle of Hexham; or, Days of Old; a play in three acts 2011-06-26T02:00:10.547Z Musa Madrigalesca; or a collection of madrigals, ballets, roundelays, etc., chiefly of the Elizabeth age; with remarks and annotations. A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 2 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:34.387Z Both are silent, as though listening to the plash of the oar-blades, or the roundelay of late singing birds on the river’s bank. Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z Trill me a moonlight roundelay, such as inspires the feet of fairies; make me see the wood violets nodding in the warm dusk, and let me hear the drone of bees in the tiger-lily's cup. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z Or art thou just content to sit and say Life’s but a specious, coral roundelay?” The Dreamers A Club 2011-02-25T03:01:06.720Z The taverns rang with the roundelay of the licentious and intemperate—"The king shall enjoy his own again." London in Modern Times or, Sketches of the English Metropolis during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. 2011-01-28T03:00:22.900Z My master glides under a balcony that is shut with lattices, takes the guitar from my hands, and there you have him warbling his roundelay. The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z "With all thy rural echoes come, Sweet comrade of the rosy day, Wafting the wild bee's gentle hum, Or cuckoo's plaintive roundelay." The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z I did not know that clouds of spray Splashed as they fell, a roundelay. Provocations But what do you make out of ‘coral roundelay’?” The Dreamers A Club 2011-02-25T03:01:06.720Z Besides all the rest, rosy linnets and blue lazuli buntings made the old tree ring with their musical roundelays. A-Birding on a Bronco He has rendered kiss for kiss, he has charmed the ears with his roundelays and the eyes with his plumage. The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades But thou, O cricket, with thy roundelay, Shalt laugh them all to scorn! The Old Soldiers Story Poems and Prose Sketches Keep the fragments, little earth-men, dance and play, 'Tis a dainty roundelay, Hold it, pray; hold it, pray. Provocations O sing unto my roundelay, O drop the briny tear with me, Dance no more at holy-day, Like a running river be. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History While words of congratulation were passing from mouth to mouth, the blow descended, and “turned to groans their roundelay.” Tales from "Blackwood," Volume 2 There the lithe minstrel sung his roundelay:190 Listen, lords and ladies bright! The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 2 Robin rose up early, Before the break of day; He flew to Jenny Wren's house, To sing a roundelay. The Adventures of Puss in Boots, Jr. I. The shadows sit and stand within its door Like uninvited guests and poor, And all the long, hot summer day A dry green locust whirs its roundelay, And the shadows halt at the door. Blooms of the Berry For her, of buttercups and violets, A circlet for her hair he makes; And sings, in roundelays and triolets, A song that soon her fancy takes. The Scarlet Stigma A Drama in Four Acts Like Nietzsche he dances when his heart is heavy, and trills his roundelays and his gamut of rancorous flowers with an enigmatic smile on his lips. Ivory Apes and Peacocks M. �loin, sycophant, courtier, had never sung for his royal patron a roundelay more pleasing than his prose of the moment. The Missourian Still I catch the scent of the rose And hear the white-throat’s roundelay, Footing the trail that Memory knows, Over the hills and far away. A line-o'-verse or two Then he began to hum a hoary roundelay about the splendid audacity of old Mister Haystack and his questionable adventures, set to an unprintable refrain of "Winktum bolly mitch-a-kimo," or some such jumble of words. Dwellers in the Hills For her, of buttercups and violets, A circlet for her hair he makes; And sings, in roundelays and triolets, A song that soon her fancy takes. The Scarlet Stigma A Drama in Four Acts The fairies were singing a roundelay; and, as the melody floated over the water, Victor and Blanche listened with throbbing hearts. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales Now, gentlemen labourers, a lusty roundelay after the toils of the day; and then to a sound sleep, in houses of our own building. The Indian Princess La Belle Sauvage W—— paused for another second or two; but then went on with his roundelay. Practical Education, Volume I All the fields were bordered with a fringe of feathery green bushes, from which rose the sweet roundelays of the song sparrows. In Orchard Glen Song and roundelay, timbrels and harp, accompanied our forefathers on their wanderings, and preceded the armed men into battle. Jewish Literature and Other Essays My merry, merry, merry roundelay Concludes with Cupid's curse: They that do change old love for new, Pray gods, they change for worse! Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature Or was’t the stripling Youth, whose roundelay Awoke the echoes of the throbbing day And changed to gladness all the world’s dull mien, Glad roads of Spring? The Rose-Jar O sing unto my roundelay; O drop the briny tear with me; Dance no more at holiday; Like a running river be; My love is dead, Gone to his death-bed, All under the willow-tree. The Children's Garland from the Best Poets The fairies were singing a roundelay; and, as the melody floated over the waters, Victor and Blanche listened with throbbing hearts. Fairy Book And by night about the crackling camp fire our happy voices, all united, are uplifted in song and roundelay. Fibble, D.D. Now will we dance and sport and play And sing a merry roundelay. Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age Is this more pleasant to you than the whir Of meadow lark, and its sweet roundelay, Or twitter of little fieldfares, as you take Your nooning in the shade of bush and brake? Conservation Reader Yet Villon wrote his roundelays, And that sweet singer Horace; But I will sing of other days In praise of Clara Morris. Poems for Pale People A Volume of Verse A robin trilled a roundelay from some neighboring branch. The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley The whole valley seemed to be transfigured by their roundelays, which have about them such an air of poetry and old-world romance. Birds of the Rockies The youngster was clothed in scarlet red, In scarlet fine and gay, And he did frisk it over the plain, And chanted a roundelay. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes The youngster was clothed in scarlet red, In scarlet fine and gay; And he did frisk it o'er the plain, And chaunted a roundelay. The Book of Brave Old Ballads Oh listen to my roundelay, Oh listen a while to me, And I'll tell ye of a deadly feud That fell out in the north countrie. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 Is this more pleasant to you than the whirr Of meadow-lark, and its sweet roundelay, Or twitter of little field-fares, as you take Your nooning in the shade of bush and brake? Tales of a Wayside Inn Robin rose up early, at the break of day; He flew to Jenny Wren’s house, to sing a roundelay. Aunt Kitty's Stories The Reg'lar Lark's a very gay old Bird; At sunrise often may his voice be heard As jauntily he wends his homeward way, And trills a fresh and merry roundelay. A Phenomenal Fauna I sing a pensive roundelay To sweethearts of a doubtful lot, The passions vanished in a day— The little loves that I've forgot. The Book of Humorous Verse Steenie was humming a plaintive ditty, or rather dirge; for it partook of a double character, something between an alehouse roundelay and a funeral chant. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 Surveyors were running lines and making plats in the suburbs, peeped at by gophers, and greeted by the roundelays of meadow-larks. Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic Their aspirations of a kindred hope had mingled in the majestic psalm; a larger harmony, remote from roundelay, or sparkling cadenza, that drew him to this Calvin maid. Under the Rose Arn.‍They are soldiers singing A reckless roundelay, upon the eve Of many deaths, it may be of their own. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry His smile was bright and his skip was light As he chirruped his roundelay. The Book of Humorous Verse Valiant was the watch on wall, Kindly, quick of wit withal. p. 39He struck up a roundelay Very seasonably gay. Aucassin and Nicolette translated from the Old French His roundelay Rang gaily on the stair; and then the door Opened and—closed. . . . Riley Songs of Friendship Dear friends, my subjects, it is May; Let us sing Spring's roundelay. Ohio Arbor Day 1913: Arbor and Bird Day Manual Issued for the Benefit of the Schools of our State OH, sing unto my roundelay; Oh, drop the briny tear with me; Dance no more at holiday, Like a running river be; My love is dead, Gone to his death-bed, All under the willow-tree. English Songs and Ballads For the Dinkey-Bird's bravuras And staccatos are so sweet— His roulades, appogiaturas, And robustos so complete, That the youth of every nation— Be they near or far away— Have especial delectation In that gladsome roundelay. The Book of Humorous Verse It were unwisely done, should we refuse To cheer our path, as featly as we may— Our lonely path to cheer, as travellers use, With merry song, quaint tale, or roundelay. Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries Never pipe could ever play Better shepherd's roundelay. Pastoral Poems by Nicholas Breton, Selected Poetry by George Wither, and Pastoral Poetry by William Browne (of Tavistock) O sing unto my roundelay, O drop the briny tear with me, Dance no more on holy-day, Like a running river be. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 No, let us sing some roundelays To make our mirth the fuller: And, while we thus inspirèd sing, Let all the streets with echoes ring; Woods, and hills, and everything, Bear witness we are merry! English Songs and Ballads Wilt thou waken, bride of May, While flowers are fresh, and sweet bells chime, Listen and learn from my roundelay How all life’s pilot boats sailed one day A match with Time! Jacob Faithful No, let us sing some roundelays, To make our mirth the fuller. Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries Friends, thank you one and all; excuse my tear, Domestic trouble makes me feel so queer; But if you like, to celebrate this day I sing you here one final roundelay. Boycotted And Other Stories With the laverock's lyric our fancy filled the sky—with the throstle's roundelay it awoke the wood. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 After a long interval, during which a robin piped a merry roundelay from the depths of a neighboring pink hawthorn, Coke dug out a question. The Stowaway Girl Story so tender, Old and gray; Yet sing again Love’s roundelay— Ah! The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison Through, through the livelong day Soundeth thy roundelay, Never its accents may Pall on mine ear:— Come, take a bribe of me! Japanese Literature Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical Poetry and Drama of Japan For tropic airs are blowing As soft as whispered roundelay From unseen lips that seem to say To feathered songsters going To sunnier, southern climes afar, "Stay where you are—stay where you are!" Poems Vol. IV The heavens and the earth do play Upon us, if we be in tune: Winter shouts hoarse his roundelay, And tender sweet pipes June. Our Unitarian Gospel Listen, and learn from my roundelay, How all life’s pilot-boats sailed one day, A match with time. The Poetry of Wales Where gleamed the guile of moonlight's smile, Once paused I, listening for a while, And heard the lay, unknown by day,— The fairies' dancing roundelay. The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar The drum beat a roundelay that set our blood hopping. Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade A roundelay, which might be styled the Praise of May or the exhortation to be liberal in love by The Example of the Rose, shall follow. Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse But God meant music; and we may, If we will keep our lives in tune, Hear the whole year sing roundelay, December answering June. Our Unitarian Gospel 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 Then join," he saith, "my roundelay; Curse God and die, and make an end. Successful Recitations I can smile," quoth Ganymede, "at the sonettos, canzones, madrigals, rounds and roundelays, that these pensive patients pour out when their eyes are more full of wantonness, than their hearts of passions. Rosalynde or, Euphues' Golden Legacy My dear Dad,—In some rustic nook reclining, silken tresses softly twining, Far-off bells so faintly ringing, While we list the blackbird singing, Merrily his roundelay. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 6, June, 1891 As the day drew to its close, "the wearied huntsmen, with their fair attendants, returned, 'midst the sounds of martial music and the low whispered roundelays of the ladies, victorious to the castle." Strange Pages from Family Papers Abroad he spread a cloak of red, A cloak of scarlet fine and gay, Again and again, he frisked over the plain, And merrily chanted a roundelay. The House of Walderne A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars I remembered a roundelay that we had sung in camp. Montlivet Are these the passions you painted out so in your sonnets and roundelays? Rosalynde or, Euphues' Golden Legacy Is this more pleasant to you than the whirr Of meadow-lark, and its sweet roundelay, Or twitter of little fieldfares, as you take Your nooning in the shade of bush and brake? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 What care I for their pranks, However they may lovers choose to aid, Or dance their roundelays on flow'ry banks?— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood My kids to hear the rimes and roundelays Which I on wasteful hills was wont to sing, Did more delight the lark in summer days, Whose echo made the neighbour groves to ring. Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Idea, Fidesa and Chloris Witness those rings and roundelays Of theirs, which yet remain, Were footed in Queen Mary's days On many a grassy plain. The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' I hear the songs of golden days Fall softly on the saddened years, But know not whose the hungry ears First feasted on the roundelays. Oklahoma and Other Poems She gently pushed the chair back from the table, quietly adjusted the sleeve which she had drawn upward from her wrist, and slowly walked out of the room, softly humming the refrain of a roundelay. Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall Courteously on you I call; Listen well to what I sing: For my roundelay to all May perchance instruction bring, And of life good lessoning.— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series There was a robin; but he sang the same little roundelay all the year…. Sister Teresa The roundelay still sounds away, The wail and the wild ha, ha, ha, ha! Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. For he lies thus, and she, the wild swan's way, Hath trod her last long weeping roundelay, And lies, his lover, ravisht o'er the main For his bed's comfort and my deep disdain. The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes In the woods the leaves are green, In the woods a golden sheen Falls upon the flowers; In the woods the robin gay Sings a happy roundelay, Perched in bloomy bowers. Dew Drops, Vol. 37, No. 17, April 26, 1914 Most given was Yoomy to amorous melodies, and rondos, and roundelays, very witching to hear. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I Give me an elfin, frolic MAY, No Queen with hoarse cadenzas, Who pipes a frozen roundelay Of spiteful influenzas. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 16, 1891 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. Is this more pleasant to you than the whir Of meadow-lark, and her sweet roundelay, Or twitter of little field-fares, as you take Your nooning in the shade of bush and brake? Voices for the Speechless Wingèd minstrels come and play Through the woods their roundelay; Who can tell but only thou, Spirit-ear'd, inspirèd May, On the bud-embow'rèd bough What the happy lyrists say? Poems In this drama is the exquisite melody, "O, sing unto my roundelay!" with which every one is familiar, as it is introduced into all our popular selections from the poets. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 332, June, 1843 Lovers and such may sing a roundelay, Whate'er that be, to greet returning May; For me, not much—the season's all too short; I hear the mower hum and scent the fray. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 14, 1919 The sound of clattering hoofs and rumbling wheels, of tinkling guitars and gay roundelays, rose out of that obscure distance, seeming far off and plaintive like the dream of a life that is past. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862 Sing away, ay, sing away, Merry little bird, Always gayest of the gay, Though a woodland roundelay You ne'er sung nor heard; Though your life from youth to age Passes in a narrow cage. Voices for the Speechless That Bowzybeus, who with jocund tongue, Ballads, and roundelays, and catches sung. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook The youngster was clothed in scarlet red In scarlet fine and gay; And he did frisk it o'er the plain, And chanted a roundelay. Robin Hood There came three merry men from south, west, and north, Ever more sing the roundelay; To win the Widow of Wycombe forth, And where was the widow might say them nay? Ivanhoe He plucked one to him, and in a moment the air was full of tender liquid notes - a thrush’s roundelay. Gathering of Brother Hilarius And with their pleasant roundelays Bid welcome to the spring: Then care away, etc. The Compleat Angler But if their talk were foul, Then would he whistle rapid as any lark, Or carol some old roundelay, and so loud That first they mocked, but, after, reverenced him. Idylls of the King Anon he chanted a roundelay with a merry note. Robin Hood The next that came forth, swore by blood and by nails, Merrily sing the roundelay; Hur's a gentleman, God wot, and hur's lineage was of Wales, And where was the widow might say him nay? Ivanhoe The rustic who follows the plow through furrowed fields, unkempt, clownish, toil-stained, weary and overworked, may brawl raucous roundelay at even-tide and enjoy the fullness of earthly bliss. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 The April wind was filling the pine trees with its roundelay, and the grove was alive with robins—great, plump, saucy fellows, strutting along the paths. Anne of the Island 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.— The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 To see you come tripping along decked out in all your gay plumage and trolling forth a roundelay, one would think you had not a care in all the world. Robin Hood The first was a knight, and from Tynedale he came, Ever more sing the roundelay; And his fathers, God save us, were men of great fame, And where was the widow might say him nay? Ivanhoe May there be some clear little stream just behind you, laughing along its idle way;—some chirping birds, singing their roundelay—some buzzing flies—you will then be lulled into doziness. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 266, July 28, 1827 Ah! will any minstrel say, In his sweetest roundelay, What is sweeter, after all, Than black haws, in early Fall— Fruit so sweet the frost first sat, Dainty-toothed, and nibbled at! Riley Child-Rhymes He kiss'd his balmy spouse with wanton play, And feebly sung a lusty roundelay: Then on the couch his weary limbs he cast; 390 For every labour must have rest at last. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 The youngster was clad in scarlet red, In scarlet fine and gay And he did frisk it over the plain, And chaunted a roundelay. The Book of Old English Ballads Of his father the laird, of his uncle the squire, He boasted in rhyme and in roundelay; She bade him go bask by his sea-coal fire, For she was the widow would say him nay. Ivanhoe I love on mossy couch to sing A Spanish roundelay, And see my sweet companions Around commingling gay,— A roving band, light-hearted, In frolicsome array,— Who 'neath the screening parasols Dance down the merry day. Poems I doubt not that the Puritan youth, debarred of merry catches and roundelays, found keen delight in these rather astonishing renditions of the songs of Solomon, portions of Isaiah, etc. Sabbath in Puritan New England The cowboy and the new milch cow carol their roundelay. Remarks Then, a little while after she had said her petty devotions, he sat down close by her upon the same bench, and gave her this roundelay in writing, in manner as followeth. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 But then next came a yeoman, a yeoman of Kent, Jollily singing his roundelay; He spoke to the widow of living and rent, And where was the widow could say him nay? Ivanhoe Let us sing, let us drink, and tune up our roundelays. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 Sing if ever ye sang of yore, When in sunny and glorious days Through the rushes and marsh-flags springing On we swept, in the joy of singing Myriad-divine roundelays. The Frogs The youngster was cloathed in scarlet red, In scarlet fine and gay; And he did frisk it over the plain, And chanted a roundelay. Ballad Book Over the heath, over the moor, and over the dale, ��"Swinging slow with sullen roar," Dance, dance away the jocund roundelay! The Poetical Works of Henry Kirk White : With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas Few more exquisite specimens of this kind can be found in our language than the Minstrel's song in Aella, beginning, O sing unto my roundelay. Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives Then back to camp, with trumpet's bray, We hied in joyful haste; And wife and child, with roundelay, With clanging cup and waltzes gay, Our glorious triumph graced. The Poems of Schiller — First period Below Therese, some tarts from the Latin Quarter were dancing in a ring on a patch of worn turf singing an infantine roundelay. Theresa Raquin A little bird woke singing in the night, Dreaming of coming day, And piped, for very fulness of delight, His little roundelay. The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems The youngster was clothed 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 Gay roundelays, swift, passionate Hungarian dances, bold Wagnerian strains followed in quick succession, and the more utter her abandon the more certainly she felt the younger man respond. The Silver Horde Eight joyous, happy creatures trip past you, some with tambourines, others with pipes sounding roundelays, or carrying festoons of flowers. Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts The graceful, happy creatures with garlands and fruits glide past you in song, shaking the tambourine or softly piping their roundelays. Palaces and Courts of the Exposition That can no murmur be; 'T is the water-nymphs, that are singing Their roundelays under me. Hyperion In a cracked and tuneless voice he began humming a roundelay, evidently intended to express gaiety and contentment. The Winds of Chance If genius summons the god Pan to pipe a roundelay, pipings there shall be! God's Good Man There is nothing but glee in the roundelay That I hear them singing, singing. Yesterdays Had he been a bulbul and continued to feel as he did, he would have poured into the ear of night such roundelays as had never been conceived of by that disciplined singer. The Reign of Law; a tale of the Kentucky hemp fields Two of the youngest and most joyous began a roundelay; but the storm howled and raged so wildly without, that this too was soon interrupted. Sintram and His Companions Now, O now, we hear no more The vilanelle and roundelay! Chamber Music For the Dinkey-Bird's bravuras And staccatos are so sweet— His roulades, appoggiaturas, And robustos so complete, That the youth of every nation— Be they near or far away— Have especial delectation In that gladsome roundelay. Love-Songs of Childhood And I heard the thud of his horse’s feet Beating a roundelay. Yesterdays From "Aella" Oh sing unto my roundelay; Oh drop the briny tear with me; Dance no more at holiday; Like a running river be! The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 Lads and lasses, trip away to the cheerful roundelay! Poems And ask, whether Wisdom is born of blood-heat; Or of other than Wisdom comes victory here; - Aught more than the banquet and roundelay, That is closed with a terrible terminal wail, A retributive black ding-dong? Poems — Volume 3 Is this more pleasant to you than the whir Of meadow-lark, and her sweet roundelay, Or twitter of little field-fares, as you take Your nooning in the shade of bush and brake? The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Whether the aphorism were universally true was not very material to the gallant captain, whose sole ambition at present was to construct a roundelay of which this should be the prevailing sentiment. Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space My love can pipe, my love can sing, My love can many a pretty thing, And of his lovely praises ring My merry, merry, merry roundelays Amen to Cupid's curse,— 'They that do change,' etc. Bulchevy's Book of English Verse Ah, Amarillis! farewell mirth and pipe; Since thou art gone, no more I mean to play To these smooth lawns, my mirthful roundelay. A selection from the lyrical poems of Robert Herrick The modern donkey pokes its head out of the lion's skin of old Rome, and brays out the absurdest of asinine roundelays. Life of John Sterling The sister of the youth, who had stolen her voice from heaven, sung alternately with her brother—'twas a Gascoigne roundelay. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman As doth the billow there upon Charybdis, That breaks itself on that which it encounters, So here the folk must dance their roundelay. Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete
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