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Undersong   Listen
noun
Undersong  n.  
1.
The burden of a song; the chorus; the refrain.
2.
Accompanying strain; subordinate and underlying meaning; accompaniment; undertone. "In the very (poetry) there often an undersong of sense which none beside the poetic mind... can comprehend."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Undersong" Quotes from Famous Books



... Like wild white water shall you sweep; Like wild white water shall you cry, Trembling and turning to the sky, While all the thousand-fringed trees Glimmer and glisten through the breeze. I bid you come! Too long, too long, You have forgot my undersong. And this perchance you never knew: E'en I, the brook, have need of you. My naiads faded long ago, — My little nymphs, that to and fro Within my waters sunnily Made small white flames of tinkling glee. I have been lonesome, lonesome; yea, E'en I, the ...
— The Little Book of Modern Verse • Jessie B. Rittenhouse

... entreats those eyes Where stars of glamour mock at revelations. But singular fiery moments do surprise With dreadful or delicious divinations The whorls of our blue Labyrinth: the sweet Blind sense of touch tells like an undersong Marvellous matters. What though snared feet, And wounded hands, and ravelled coils of wrong, Plead that the solemn Vision might make whole Our imperfection?—Fevered second-sight, Audacious wisdom of the blinded soul, ...
— The Hours of Fiammetta - A Sonnet Sequence • Rachel Annand Taylor



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