Song Sentence Examples
I learned a song about spring.
You were singing a different song a few hours ago?
When Dean returned to Bird Song, it was mid-morning, but if he expected a quiet empty building with the Dawkinses at the courthouse and the rest of the clientele enjoying the splendors of Ouray, he was wrong.
A young couple whose life dream was owning a Bird Song look-alike learned from Fred the principals would be absent for the day and offered to stick around playing temporary innkeepers.
Then he sang a wonderful song, so sweet, so lively, so touching, that many of the sailors were moved to tears.
I heard a robin in the distance, the first I had heard for many a thousand years, methought, whose note I shall not forget for many a thousand more--the same sweet and powerful song as of yore.
While he was pleased that Bird Song was starting the day on a pleasant note, the knot in his stomach remained to remind him of their pending trip to the mine.
Besides, the cops only had eyes for me, like the song says.
Dean wondered if Bird Song could afford the food bill as he sat down and joined Pumpkin for a cup of coffee.
I was sure you'd whack the son of a bitch and maybe kill him and I didn't want to be a jailhouse widow and run Bird Song alone.
AdvertisementOne brief spring, musical with the song of robin and mocking-bird, one summer rich in fruit and roses, one autumn of gold and crimson sped by and left their gifts at the feet of an eager, delighted child.
The Deans were on their way to their quarters in the rear of Bird Song when Fred O'Connor returned, fresh from an evening with Mrs. Worthington.
They had knocked heads and locked wills over the death of a Bird Song guest during the prior January's Ice Climbing Festival when bitter words were exchanged.
They had compared Martha's drawing to the contour maps of the area back at Bird Song and decided this was as close to the general area of the mine that any type of roadway touched.
Pumpkin's original deposit with Bird Song was overdrawn and requests for further funds were excused away, purportedly awaiting some expected but unexplained bounty via the mail.
AdvertisementBird Song was empty, or so they thought, when they returned.
While the Deans didn't like to leave Bird Song unattended, occasionally it was unavoidable.
By the time they were ready to leave, all of Bird Song was up and about, scurrying around like mice in a cheese shop.
The Deans had married a year ago and poured their life savings into Bird Song.
Occasionally, he even lent a hand with the chores at Bird Song.
AdvertisementThe last of Bird Song's unfed guests arrived with a yawn.
You could have saved the price of staying at Bird Song.
He paced the Bird Song nest, glancing at his watch every thirty seconds and grumbling about time being money on his Internet auctions.
I told a man on the phone, who didn't identify himself, that Edith Shipton wasn't registered at Bird Song.
It was a wonderful, glorious song, and it won the blind poet an immortal crown, the admiration of all ages.
AdvertisementIt was Dolokhov marching with particular grace and boldness in time to the song and looking at those driving past as if he pitied all who were not at that moment marching with the company.
With a solemn triumphal march there mingled a song, the drip from the trees, and the hissing of the saber, "Ozheg-zheg-zheg..." and again the horses jostled one another and neighed, not disturbing the choir but joining in it.
A strong hand grabbed Carmen's arm as the band started another song.
A meadowlark pierced the silence with its sharp whistling song.
The ten-year-old girl had resided at Bird Song with David Dean, his wife Cynthia, and Dean's seventy-seven-year-old stepfather, Fred O'Connor, for the past six months.
Her residence was compliments of Janet O'Brien, one of a long line of Bird Song's temporary domestics.
Now, thanks to an overzealous social worker, Martha was scheduled to become reacquainted with mommy dearest—in Denver, over three hundred miles away from Bird Song's nest.
On Friday morning Bird Song's full complement of guests were treated to the usual bounty of Cynthia's baking, but with less zip and smiles than most days.
What's more, none seemed bent on murder, a decided improvement over some of Bird Song's earlier guests!
So far, wee Maria stood head and shoulders over any other domestic helper Bird Song had employed.
Bird Song's parlor began filling with guests whose canceled activities put them in a what-do-you-do-next? mood of bewilderment.
We'll fill you in back at Bird Song.
It all goes to Bird Song?
Who else had been staying at Bird Song throughout this whole business?
When conversation lagged, they apparently took the hint and retreated into Bird Song.
Should we sign it from Bird Song?
Bird Song was quiet.
And now they would have spared him; but he was true to his promise,-- as soon as the song was finished, he threw himself headlong into the sea.
Bird Song's managerial pair tried to present a breakfast happy face over coffee cake and muffins, but their efforts continued to fall short as they waited for Martha to make an appearance.
This was unusual, as Bird Song's matron had pestered him about the details of the emerging flora since he had arrived at the inn the prior week.
Cynthia devoured every publication she could find on the subject and was looking forward to spending some quality time hiking the high country, if the demand of Bird Song's chores would allow snatches of free time.
The rocking chairs were back, four in a row, red, green, yellow, and purple, adding a blaze of color against the century-old white building of Bird Song.
Even Bird Song's gilded front sign, advertising the bed and breakfast, had been washed of a year's dust from the unpaved side street.
There was no time for Cynthia to talk to her husband, who was busy serving breakfast to the late sleepers while she showed Maria, by hand communication, the upstairs chores of Bird Song.
He knew Cynthia wanted to update him on her talk with Martha, but both realized time was short as they planned to take Martha to dinner for her last night under Bird Song's wing.
When Saturday's daylight arrived to David Dean's exhausted eyes, the time had slipped past his usual rising hour and voices and footsteps rattled the old timbers of Bird Song.
I'll call him 'SB,' for 'Song Bird' instead of 'BS' for 'Bird Song.'
He was just a guest at Bird Song.
As he was about to leave, Brandon Westlake returned with Cynthia and, being sympathetic to his labors, volunteered to ferry the returning swimmers back to Bird Song.
Dinner was a quiet affair, cooked by the returning Fred O'Connor—hamburgers, a tad over-broiled, but the Deans appreciated the effort as they were busy with Bird Song's other chores.
Dean continued to exhibit restrain with his comebacks in deference to the improved moods around Bird Song.
If that were the case, Dean wondered, why had Joseph also rented a Jeep and parked out of sight behind Bird Song?
He seemed compelled to explain his presence as he accompanied them back to Bird Song.
He was off with a jog and a wave, leaving the Deans in front of Bird Song.
She stomped on her cigarette butt and kicked it into the daisies before slamming her way into Bird Song.
Cynthia would attend the New Jersey wedding—thank God for Visa—while Fred and Dean would hold down Bird Song.
A party of Bird Song's male residents plus the Dawkins gals had gathered in the parlor.
How can you sit on a jury that involves guests staying at Bird Song?
It'll be like a party when we open them back at Bird Song!
What ever happened to Bird Song's 'mind our own business' philosophy?
Speculation continued to abound at Bird Song.
The family lived in Chicago and hadn't provided a phone number when they registered at Bird Song.
The warmth of the evening chased out Bird Song's guests—all non-dieters probably queuing up for ice cream, or maybe simply promenading the Victorian village streets as alpenglow painted the surrounding peaks in pink.
By the time the Deans returned, most of Bird Song's guests had scattered off to the continuing Fourth of July happenings.
Sure, Dean thought, I'll put it on the list, right after food, clothing and shelter, all of which were tough enough to fund given Bird Song's present budget.
Two hours remained before the last of the day's celebrations— the Jeep flare parade down the mountain, followed by a massive fireworks display—so after finishing supper, the Deans began playing catch up with Bird Song's chores.
Thoughts raced through his mind of another crash, when Bird Song's very first guest had met a similar fate—but on a traveled highway, not a remote Jeep road deep in the San Juans.
Like Billy's friend who's staying at Mr. Dean's boarding house, Bird Song!
To make matters worse, half of Bird Song's guests who passed by congratulated him on the debate, a sure sign they hadn't been there.
Dean was happy at a little time away from Bird Song.
It was Martha who called Bird Song this morning.
Cynthia and I will call a lawyer when I get back to Bird Song.
Dean read the paper as he sat in his Jeep—I'll be at Bird Song in an hour.
Dean left Bird Song on foot, passing up the temptation to drive his Jeep the short distance to the Main Street delicatessen.
Supper was picked-at leftovers, and neither felt like socializing with Bird Song's guests, who came and went on their own, without their usual afternoon goodies and conversation.
I want to make reservations at Bird Song for a week in August.
Bird Song switched a few guest, baked a few goodies, cleaned a few toilets and made a few beds, all with a been-there, done-that regularity.
You folks at Bird Song can get into more pickles than any group I know.
Then he added, You might have better luck learning who's been trying to buy the worthless mine and who at Bird Song swiped the itsy-bitsy bone you found.
The real celebration of Fred's release from jail didn't begin until the pair returned to Bird Song where Cynthia had baked a fresh apple pie, complete with vanilla ice cream, tagged on to the end of a healthy lunch.
He was back at Bird Song and all was right with the world.
The trio continued to click down the list of people at Bird Song who were around when the bone fragment theft was discovered.
While the need for such meetings wasn't as dire or sinister as the first few days after Bird Song's opening, the three still gathered here, away from the guests, especially when they wished to discuss one or more of their paying customers beyond their prying ears.
That's why I came over to Bird Song.
That's the way a left-handed person pours and Edith is the only lefty at Bird Song.
The next morning, I awoke to glorious sunshine and left the bothy, singing an old Paul Simon song as I went.
There was attorney Faust but there was no proof he had even set foot in Bird Song.
In celebration of Fred's return to Bird Song, Dean didn't bother to protest.
In spite of the good news of Fred's return, the pall of Martha's continued absence draped over Bird Song.
It read, I want my kid Martha Boyd to live of the deans at Bird Song in Colorado.
There was a question of jurisdictions and when Weller volunteered that Martha was safe and comfortable at Bird Song where she'd spent the last six months, no one seemed to protest.
Brandon Westlake, the only other guest of long standing, was off on an early morning photo shoot but an unexpected prodigal returned to Bird Song just as the second batch of cinnamon rolls rolled out of the oven.
Dean's feelings were mixed about Pumpkin's visit but on the plus side, there were a few more bucks in Bird Song's bank account.
He explained no cigarettes were found with the remains Fitzgerald brought to Bird Song nor was there any such evidence when the Deans visited the site.
Dean stewed over the question as the business of Bird Song continued.
I'll see you back at Bird Song.
She screeched to a stop at Bird Song and was off almost before he was out of the vehicle.
July stretched into August, and just before the election, Jennifer Radisson spent her promised week at Bird Song.
Before Dean could contact Lydia to offer his congratulations, she visited Bird Song the day after Cynthia returned.
Gabriel stopped in front of her, his heat and nearness like a subtle siren song that tried to lure her closer.
He had been outside, atop a ladder, removing Christmas lights when the two checked in to Bird Song, the Dean's bed and breakfast.
After extensive alterations, Bird Song, a bed and breakfast, was born.
Bird Song was an empty nest.
Bird Song's going to be close to empty for a few more days until the ice climbers arrive.
Dean started to protest but his wife began carrying the packed ornaments from the room and asked in her sweetest tone if he could remove the now-dried Christmas tree and finish a short list of Bird Song chores she'd drawn up earlier.
I booked two more rooms for Bird Song as a result of it!
They're coming to Bird Song, just because of that important merchandise you called junk!
What did you tell them to get them so excited they want to travel all the way to Ouray Colorado and Bird Song?
You told these ladies that this Annie Quincy woman probably lived here in Bird Song?
We don't know what Bird Song was at the turn of the century, just that there was a building or some sort on this site.
Even if Bird Song was a boarding house, there must have been scores of lodging places just like it.
Her comments brought to mind the death of Bird Song's very first guest and the strange events that followed.
The couple was back in Bird Song by seven o'clock.
I was telling Mrs. Edith about these here letters and how the two ladies from Boston will be coming to Bird Song.
There were lots of rooming houses but we have no idea how Bird Song was utilized at the turn of the century.
Yup. Bird Song is a small inn and I'd know.
After dawn arrived at last and the couple were showered and dressed, they speculated further on the late night sounds as Cynthia filled Bird Song's breakfast table with fresh baked goodies.
Edith was as nervous as the prior evening, glancing across the hall at her son, as if danger lurked in every corner of Bird Song.
During the week before Christmas, Martha had spent an overnight at Bird Song when Janet was forced to report to court in Grand Junction, on some charges she, thankfully, did not detail to the Deans.
Dean told her Donnie was a guest at Bird Song and explained the lad, only slightly older than Martha, did not speak.
You were so nice to us last night and Bird Song feels so warm.
Dean hadn't had time for a discussion with Cynthia about whether or not to tell Edith Shipton of the inquiry about her staying at Bird Song.
In her dream Annie is telling her to stick around Bird Song!
If this husband of hers is abusive and traced her charge slip to Bird Song that quickly, he means business.
Said you told him his wife wasn't staying at Bird Song.
Dean returned to Bird Song and brought Cynthia up to date on his conversation with Sheriff Weller over a quiet lunch of soup and grilled cheese.
And then to have Bird Song's first guest turning up dead!
Once the details to that "caper," as Fred O'Connor called it, were settled, life and business at Bird Song had proceeded peacefully.
There were other guests at Bird Song and enough regular problems running a country inn without creating any more.
When the Deans returned to Bird Song, the place was quiet.
Why don't you come back to Bird Song.
As Dean and his young passenger neared Bird Song, Edith Shipton drove up the street, parked, and entered the inn ahead of them.
She hopped out of the car with a quick thanks ran into Bird Song ahead of him.
Whoever the guy in the Blazer was, he gave Edith the look-see when he drove past Bird Song.
It was a gift from a young lady whom he'd helped when Bird Song first opened.
The bearded man was younger looking than Dean had thought when he first saw him drive by Bird Song, probably no more than late twenties.
It had been originally designed as a maid's quarters and it was the last room they rented when Bird Song was otherwise booked.
Cynthia was still on the phone so after Dean introduced himself he completed the paperwork, without comment or acknowledgment that he knew Ryland's relationship to Bird Song's other guest Edith Shipton and her son.
Dean started to get out of the car but Weller waved him on and Ryland pulled away from Bird Song.
When her son Randy, visiting Bird Song over his Christmas college break, had expressed an interest in the sport, she had a fit.
Bird Song was now officially at full capacity and would remain so for the next few days.
Their suppertime chatter was limited to the logistics of Bird Song and the care and breakfast feeding of its thirteen guests.
I haven't had a chance with Bird Song packed like a sardine can.
With Bird Song being full, much as I'd like to get to know Miss Annie a little better, she'll have to wait in line.
She said she thought Bird Song held spirits, too.
I'm afraid I'd get evicted from Bird Song, if and when I made it back!
The rest of the climbers followed in the truck but Ryland declined to join them, turning a perturbed eye to Bird Song.
The group walked up to the ice park climbing area from Bird Song.
Finally, it was acknowledged she would return to Bird Song alone.
The other climbers from Bird Song were already here.
But I intend to stay at Bird Song.
Bird Song is full.
I just hope he stays away from her, and Bird Song.
You know, I dreamed Jerome came here, to Bird Song, last night.
We don't want to give Bird Song the wrong reputation and have Sheriff Jake Weller down here busting the place.
Dean pulled Janet aside and asked if she had let any strangers into Bird Song the prior afternoon.
Your marital difficulties aren't our business but Bird Song is and we don't want any hint of trouble here.
Now that the busy morning activity no longer occupied Cynthia's mind, she again was visibly upset about Bird Song's latest guest, Jerome Shipton, and the penchant for trouble that surrounded his presence.
He offered an exchange for a later getaway weekend at Bird Song for the man and his wife.
I'm more interested in live people and guests in Bird Song, not some revenant.
Maybe now they'll all check out of Bird Song and things will return to normal.
The darkening sky matched the mood of Bird Song's guests and inhabitants as they woke to a busy Saturday morning, the main day of the ice festival.
Donnie had pretty well taken over the project as the chores of Bird Song limited Cynthia's time.
We'd lose Bird Song!
Bird Song was as quiet as a tomb, with Janet either the most silent domestic on record or snoozing away in an unoccupied room.
Yeah. She's run down to Bird Song.
When Dean rushed into Bird Song, Cynthia was standing in the hall, the phone at her ear.
By that time, most of the ice climbers were back at Bird Song.
Cynthia would go alone—that was a given with Bird Song requiring Dean's attention.
And don't you worry none about Bird Song.
After a call to Fred at Bird Song and the necessary schedule changes, they once again boarded the Jeep for the one-hour ride.
They both loved Ouray, the Colorado mountains and hosting the guests of Bird Song, at least most of them.
The snow continued to fall as Dean pulled in front of Bird Song, angled his Jeep as best he could in the drifts, and climbed to the porch.
The climbers are checking out of Bird Song tomorrow.
My read is Shipton didn't exactly make friends at Bird Song.
The way I see it, someone from Bird Song cut his rope.
Thankfully, Janet arrived to take up the inside tasks of Bird Song.
He left Bird Song, telling Janet where he was going and together with Fred, hiked up to the ice park to where Shipton had fallen.
Two unmarked State cars were parked in front of Bird Song, along with, to Dean's surprise, Edith's rental car and Donald Ryland's Explorer.
Why did Mrs. Shipton choose Bird Song to visit?
I didn't lie to him when I told him no one named Shipton was registered at Bird Song but I saw no reason to go out of my way and help him either.
Most of Bird Song's other guests remained, as requested, in their own rooms but Ryland hung around the kitchen, sharing a snack of take-out pizza with Donnie while Edith sat nearby, wringing her hands and looking petrified.
He hadn't spoken to Edith Shipton since her husband's accident and felt, as the host of Bird Song, he owed the woman some sort of condolence.
Both high-stepped their way through the deep snow to the plowed alley in the rear of Bird Song.
Unless they arrest me, I'm still in Bird Song, and that's where all the action is right at the moment.
Dean felt the beginnings of a headache creep along the base of his neck as he tried to concentrate on who, among the cast of characters cloistered snugly in Bird Song, might have been responsible for Jerome Shipton's fall.
Dean took a look at the thawing street in front of Bird Song and went out back and unhooked his bicycle.
He was pleased he'd accepted Fred's offer to stay away from Bird Song.
If you're looking for an update on what's happening at Bird Song, you're out of luck.
Cynthia and the old man do more running Bird Song than you and I'll bet you could use the dough.
As Dean drew close to Bird Song, he resolved to ask his wife point blank if she witnessed Donnie Ryland cutting his stepfather's climbing rope in an attempt to send him to his death.
A small red sports car skidded to a stop in front of Bird Song as Dean dismounted his bike.
I'm sorry about all this but we don't need any more trouble at Bird Song.
This time our keys say 'Bird Song' on the key fob.
Pleased to meet any friend of Donnie's and Bird Song.
Dean continued to hold Martha's hand as they walked uptown and found a place open on Seventh Avenue, a couple of blocks from Bird Song.
It had something to do with Bird Song and I think she was afraid you'd fire her.
When the two returned to Bird Song, Donnie met Martha at the stairs and tugged her up to his and Edith's second floor room.
Bird Song was as quiet as an empty church with none of the remaining guests in evidence, nor was there any sign the police had returned.
As he strolled away from Bird Song, Corday pulled up in front.
I'll drive you back to Bird Song so you can look it up.
After trying Cynthia one more time, he gave up and returned to Bird Song.
Everyone else was apparently asleep as Bird Song was as quiet as a tomb.
Dean's mind churned the details of the recent happenings, trying to make sense of Shipton's orchestrated plunge to the river, and the strange reactions of those still sleeping beneath Bird Song's roof, and elsewhere.
He just wanted his wife back in Bird Song.
He lay there, trying to comprehend if the noise were in his mind's fantasies or in the real world of Bird Song.
Unless you're going to charge me with something, get the hell out of Bird Song and leave me alone.
He paused and said a silent prayer for the spirit of this person who had brought so much grief to Bird Song and his previously contented life.
Later, Dean heard the movement of the mortuary men coming for Edith—the hushed conversation and the bumping and thumping as the lifeless shell of this troubled woman was bagged and forever removed from Bird Song.
She even used the same fountain pen she used when she registered here at Bird Song, when she signed 'Edith Jones.'
He leaned across the coffee table and reached for Bird Song's guest register, handing it to Dean.
Cynthia had given him such an instrument at the time the couple signed papers acquiring Bird Song.
Too bad she decided to do it here at Bird Song.
Maybe now you can get back to the future, and running Bird Song.
All of Bird Song was in the room.
Dean spent the afternoon busying himself with the chores of Bird Song, partially out of guilt for having dumped the morning duties on Fred and in part to take his mind off the ever-present feeling he'd caused long term or, heaven forbid, permanent damage to his seven-month marriage.
In spite of all his cleaning, Bird Song didn't seem to have the same shine as it did when Cynthia was in residence.
Instead, he returned to Bird Song to once more try to contact his wife.
Edith Shipton was a very troubled woman, from the first time she stepped into Bird Song.
Besides, we have to accommodate the wishes of the guests of Bird Song, don't we?
If it was Bird Song where Annie lived, perhaps the scratched window pane is still here!
Even if it was Bird Song where she stayed, the place must have been altered a dozen times in the last century.
But more than anything else, there was love at Bird Song.
Do you believe Annie died at Bird Song?
Okay. I'll buy that they're up there keeping an eye on Bird Song and watching out for us.
At least Edith Shipton was alive before she visited Bird Song.
When they entered Bird Song Fred was still in place on the sofa, but as soon as he saw them he jumped up and embraced Cynthia like the returning prodigal child.
It was time for the Deans to talk, to enjoy one another, the first real time together since their May wedding and hectic summer and fall that followed their move West and the opening of Bird Song.
Bird Song, while providing a simple living for them, was never going to bring a fortune to their bank account.
Gladys Turnbull remained Bird Song's sole paying guest, at least for a couple of days longer.
She had joined the three hosts for a game of dominoes when Bird Song welcomed a new guest.
Martha became settled into Bird Song's routine with amazing rapidity.
All of Edith Shipton's belongings were still packed in a closet at Bird Song.
He said the whole song and dance about his wife acting like that other woman gave him the willies.
Dean helped Weller carry the remaining articles into Bird Song.
The following weekend, two and a half weeks after Edith's death, Penny and Mick returned to bird Song for a couple of days of ice climbing, a further reminder of the ice park incident.
Come by Bird Song and we'll have to arrange for her to go back with you.
His first inclination was to stay as far away from Bird Song as possible until Shipton was long gone.
As Dean peddled up to Bird Song, he saw no unfamiliar cars.
He even apologized for not calling before he stopped by and for not staying at Bird Song, like maybe he'd be welcomed.
Said it was for all the trouble he and his wife caused Bird Song.
And you still had a key to Bird Song.
I should have remembered you still had your key to Bird Song.
You must have just guessed what happened after I just stopped by Bird Song.
You think he was in Bird Song all the time?
He practically raped her the night he first stayed in Bird Song.
He couldn't have chosen a more appropriate song.
Come on, they're playing our song.
When the song ended they stood motionless.
He twirled her around the floor singing the entire song to her, complete with howls.
When the song ended, she started to pull away, but he pressed against her.
At the end of the song, Sarah jumped up and hugged her.
Can that be my special song?
I'm thinking Daisy Duke outfit, and that song for my Christmas lap dance.
He began humming the school song as he watched the play.
You sell it for a song.
A song would play and he'd recall hearing it when they were together.
He'll become a part of the chorus and sing a songfor his friends.
David and Cynthia Dean, now husband and wife, and owners of Bird Song, a bed and breakfast in Ouray, Colorado, were seated in the Tundra Room of the recently restored Beaumont Hotel.
When a slow song began, Alex lifted a brow.
The only sound was that of Ed walking and an occasional winter bird song.
I'll always remember the song they were playing the first time we danced and I knew.
A hushed silence fell over the verandah and the strains of an old song filtered soft music through the air.
The cock, in his plumage of yellowish-green and yellow is one of the most finely coloured of common English birds, but he is rather heavily built, and his song is hardly commended.
The foundation was closely modelled on Winchester College, with its warden and fellows, its grammar and song schoolmasters, but a step in advance was made by the masters being made fellows and so members of the governing body.
It is equally difficult to discover the relation between Paean or Paeon in the sense of " healer " and Paean in the sense of " song."
It is no less remarkable for its bright carmine attire, and an elongated crest of the same colour, than for its fine song.
The name was then given to the famous revolutionary song, composed in 1792, the tune of which, and the wild dance which accompanied it, may have also been brought into France by the Piedmontese.
From a sick-bed, from which he never rose, he conducted this work with surprising energy, and there composed those poems, too few in number, but immortal in the English language, such as the "Song of the Shirt" (which appeared anonymously in the Christmas number of Punch, 1843), the "Bridge of Sighs" and the "Song of the Labourer," which seized the deep human interests of the time, and transported them from the ground of social philosophy into the loftier domain of the imagination.
No deductions as to their chronology can be based on the silence regarding them in Moses' song, Exodus xv.
The resonance in the singer's deep voice made the song sound more powerful.
He retained through life his early love of song, and during his last illness he passed much of his time in singing.
In the exile, but probably after 50o B.C., an important section of the Hexateuch, usually called the Priest's Code (P), was drawn up. At various times in the same century are to be placed the book of Job, the post-exilic parts of Isaiah, the books of Joel, Jonah, Malachi and the Song of Songs.
He wrote on grammar (Sepher ha-galui and Sepher Zikkaron), commentaries on Proverbs and the Song of Solomon, an apologetic work, Sepher ha-berith, and a translation of Balhya's Ilobhoth ha-lebhabhoth.
Livius himself took part in his plays, and in order to spare his voice he introduced the custom of having the solos (cantica) sung by a boy, while he himself represented the action of the song by dumb show.
Of an olive-green above, deeply tinted in some parts with black and in others lightened by yellow, and beneath of a yellowish-white again marked with black, the male of this species has at least a becoming if not a brilliant garb, and possesses a song that is not unmelodious, though the resemblance of some of its notes to the running-down of a piece of clockwork is more remarkable than pleasing.
The Hesperides are, like the Sirens, possessed of the gift of delightful song.
In addition to the books mentioned above he published a number of books which had a remarkable circulation in England and America, such as Speaking to the Heart (1862); The Way to Life (1862); Man and the Gospel (1865); The Angel's Song (1865); The Parables (1866); Our Father's Business (1867); Out of Harness (1867); Early Piety (1868); Studies of Character from the Old Testament (1868-1870); Sundays Abroad (1871).
The song which has immortalized him the Marseillaise, was composed at Strassburg, where Rouget de Lisle was quartered in April 1792.
From an almost contemporary period he has been the subject of song; and he who was chanted by wandering minstrels in the 12th century has survived to be hymned in revolutionary odes of the 19th.
There are no large game birds, but song birds and doves are numerous on the mountains, and flamingoes and other water-birds frequent the coast.
Meanwhile the rest of the work (except in the prettily scored " Spinning Song," and other harmless and vigorous tunes) has more affinity with Wagner's mature style than the bulk of its much more ambitious successors, Tannhauser and Lohengrin.
The weakest passages in Der fliegende Hollander are not so helpless as the original recitatives of Venus in the first act; or Tannhauser's song, which was too far involved in the whole scheme to be ousted by the mature " New Venusberg music " with which Wagner fifteen years later got rid both of the end of the overture and what he called his " Palais-Royal " Venus.
The barley-corn has been personified as representing the malt liquor made from barley, as in Burns's song "John Barleycorn."
In the age of the Father all that was necessary was obedience; in the age of the Son reading is enjoined; but the age of the Spirit was to be devoted to prayer and song.
He quotes all the books of the Old Testament except Ruth and the Song of Solomon, and amongst the sacred writings of the Old Testament he evidently included the book of Tobit, the Wisdom of Solomon and Ecclesiasticus.
On the other hand, there are elements in the poem which show that it is not entirely the work of a poor crowder; and these (notably references to historical and literary authorities, and occasional reminiscences of the literary tricks of the Scots Chaucerian school) have inclined some to the view that the text, as we have it, is an edited version of the minstrel's rough song story.
To the early part of the 15th century may be assigned also the legends of " St Francis " and of " St Ursula," and possibly the original of the Enek Pannonia megvitelerol, an historical " Song about the Conquest of Pannonia."
Amongst other important codices are the Jorddnszky Codex (1516-1519), an incomplete copy of the translation of the Bible made by Ladislaus Batori, who died about 1456; and the Dobrentei or Gyulafehervdr Codex (1508), containing a version of the Psalter, Song of Solomon, and the liturgical epistles and gospels, copied by Bartholomew Halabori from an earlier translation (KSrnyei, A Magyar nemzeti irodalomtortenet vdzlata, 1861, p. 30).
Andrew Farkas and the homilist Peter Melius (Juhasz) attempted didactic verse; and Batizi busied himself with sacred song and Biblical history.
Valyi-Nagy, the first Magyar 1 The earliest, styled " Song on the Discovery of the right hand of the Holy King Stephen," and printed at Nuremberg by Anton Koburger in 1484, is lost.
His genuine simplicity as a lyrical writer is shown by the fact that several of his shorter pieces have passed into popular song.
That the whole book is named " praises " is clearly due to the fact that it was the manual of the Temple service of song, in which praise was the leading feature.
Jerabis on the Euphrates, and wrote a commentary on the Song of Songs, a number of hymns and a biography of Severus, the Monophysite patriarch of Antioch (512-519).
Like many other singing birds it is, in the wild state, a mocking-bird, having been heard to imitate the song of the nightingale, the crowing of a cock, and even the cackling of a hen.
He was most successful in his translation of popular song, in which he shows a rare sympathetic insight into the various feelings and ideas of peoples as unlike as Greenlanders and Spaniards, Indians and Scots.
Its strident voice is heard most loudly at times of great heat, when the song of the birds is hushed.
The poetry of the nation remained immovable in the ancient groove until very modern times, when, either by direct access to the originals or through the medium of very defective translations, the nation became acquainted with the masters of Occidental song.
Amongst his published works were a commentary on the Book of Job (1850), a translation of the Song of Songs (1852), an exposition of Isaiah xl.-lxvi.
The officials of the college were the magister, the praesul, and the vates (the leaders in dance and song) .
The deputies assembled under an old oak-tree, celebrated by the Basque poet, Jose Maria Iparraguirre, in a song which is regarded by the Spanish Basques almost as a national anthem.
In this spirit he wrote commentaries upon portions of Aristotle, and upon the Summa of Aquinas, and towards the end of his life made a careful translation of the Old and New Testaments, excepting Solomon's Song, the Prophets and the Revelation of St John.
Before Him all the elders and the living creatures fell down and acknowledged that He had power to open the seven seals thereof, and their song was re-echoed by every thing alike in heaven and earth.
This song forms a prelude to the chapters that follow.
Though goldfinches may occasionally be observed in the coldest weather, incomparably the largest number leave Britain in autumn, returning in spring, and resorting to gardens and orchards to breed, when the lively song of the cock, and the bright yellow wings of both sexes, quickly attract notice.
Of the various other genera allied to Mimus, the best known are the thrashers (genus Harporhynchus) of which six or eight species are found in North America, which are thrush-like and shy in their habits and do not mimic; and the cat-bird (Galeoscoptes carolinensis), which in addition to having an attractive song, utters clucks, whistles and mewing sounds.
The mocking-bird is the principal song bird and it and the lark-sparrow are common throughout the state.
Richard Millikin's song, "The Groves of Blarney" (c. 1798), contributed to the fame of the castle, which is also bound up with the civil history of the county and the War of the Great Rebellion.
There are many insectivorous birds; among the song birds are the hermit thrush, the wood thrush, the Wilson's thrush, the brown thrasher, the bobolink, the catbird, the oven bird, the house wren, the song sparrow, the fox sparrow, the vesper sparrow, the white-throated sparrow (Peabody bird), the goldfinch and the robin.
His friends and his party thought to carry the body back to his beloved Paris for burial, but the government of the day arrested the procession at the frontier, an act which caused some scandal, and furnished the occasion of a terrible song of Beranger's.
The robin, song sparrow, chickadee, thrushes, warblers, vireos, orioles, wrens, blue-bird, cat-bird and phoebe are favourite song birds.
His subsequent works were dissertations on the origin of alphabetical writing (Die Erfindung der Buchstabenschrift, 1801), on the antiquity of the Codex Vaticanus (1810), and on ancient mythology (Ober den Mythos der alten Volker, 1812); a new interpretation of the Song of Solomon (Das hohe Lied in einer noch unversuchten Deutung, 1813), to the effect that the lover represents King Hezekiah, while by his beloved is intended the remnant left in Israel after the deportation of the ten tribes; and treatises on the indissoluble character of the matrimonial bond (De conjugii christiani vinculo indissolubili commentatio exegetica, 1816) and on the Alexandrian version of the Pentateuch (1818).
The natural song of the canary is loud and clear; and in their native groves the males, especially during the pairing season, pour forth their song with such ardour as sometimes to burst the delicate vessels of the throat.
Another aspect of his character appears in the remarkable "Song of Solomon," on which see CANTICLES.
Another aspect of his character appears in the remarkable "Song of Solomon"... Still another phase is represented in the monologue of Ecclesiastes.
Of his exegetical works the best preserved are the Commentary on the Prophet Daniel and the Commentary on the Song of Songs.
Of the Academy's edition one volume was published at Berlin in 1897, containing the Commentaries on Daniel and on the Song of Songs, the treatise on Antichrist, and the Lesser Exegetical and Homiletic Works, edited by Nathanael Bonwetsch and Hans Achelis.
A good way farther north two small rivers, the Nam Kum and the Nam Song Kram, also tributaries of the Mekong, drain a small part of eastern Siam.
The ancient Polish hymn or war song, Piesn Boga Rodzica, was an address to the Virgin, sung by the Poles when about to fight.
He wrote a fine descriptive work, Obrazy z zycia i podrozy (" Pictures of Life and Travel"), and also a poem, Piesn o ziemi naszej (" Song of our Land").
In the War of 1812 Frederick, Havre de Grace, and Frenchtown were burned by the British; but particularly noteworthy were the unsuccessful movements of the enemy by land and by sea against Baltimore, in which General Robert Ross (c. 1766-1814), the British commander of the land force, was killed before anything had been accomplished and the failure of the fleet to take Fort McHenry after a siege of a day and a night inspired the song The Star-spangled Banner, composed by Francis Scott Key who had gone under a flag of truce to secure from General Ross the release of a friend held as a prisoner by the British and during the attack was detained on his vessel within the British lines.
The different order of the books in the English Bible is due to the fact that when the Hebrew Bible was translated into Greek between the 3rd and 1st centuries B.C., the Hebrew tripartite division was disregarded, and the books (including those now known as the " Apocrypha ") were grouped mostly by subjects, the historical books being placed first (Genesis - Esther), the poetical books next (Job - Song of Songs), and the prophetical books last (Isaiah - Malachi).
Of these, the Song of Songs, in exquisite poetry, extols the power and sweetness of pure and faithful human love.
Nordlands Trompet (The Trumpet of Nordland), his greatest and most famous poem, was not published till 1739; Den norska Dale-Vise (The Norwegian Song of the Valley) appeared in 1696; the Aandelig Tidsfordriv (Spiritual Pastime), a volume of sacred poetry, was published in 1711.
His best known productions are Adams and Liberty, a once popular song written in 1798, The Invention of Letters (1795), and The Ruling Passion, the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa poem of 1797.
Throughout this mystic religious world it was above all the influence of the late Greek religion, derived from Plato, that also continued to operate; it is filled with the echo of the song, the first note of which was sounded by the Platonists, about the heavenly home of the soul and the homeward journey of the wise to the higher world of light.
The hermit thrush, veery, song sparrow, red-eyed vireo, bunting, warbler and wren are among the song birds of the forests.
The picturesque ruins of Bothwell Castle occupy a conspicuous position on the side of the river, which here takes the bold sweep famed in Scottish song as.
His more important books, of which English translations have been published, are the poems Gitanjali (Song Offerings) (1913), The Crescent Moon (1913), The Gardener (1913), Songs of Kabir (1915), Fruit Gathering (1916), Stray Birds (1917), The Lover's Gift and the Crossing (1918); the plays Chitra (1914), The King of the Dark Chamber (1914), The Post Office (1914),.
The chaffinch breeds early in the season, and its song may often be heard in February.
The Conquest of Ireland was republished in 1892 by Goddard Henry Orpen, under the title of The Song of Dermot and the Earl (Oxford, Clarendon Press).
The ohelo berry is famous in song and story, and formerly served as a propitiatory offering to Pele.
He therefore bought back the sheets, says Calamy, for an old song, bound them and sold them in his own shop. This in turn was complained of, and he had to beg pardon on his knees before the council-table; and the remaining copies were sentenced to be "bisked," or rubbed over with an inky brush, and sent back to the kitchen for lighting fires.
Judith now sings a song of praise, and all go up to Jerusalem to worship with sacrifice and rejoicing.
Andresen (Heilbronn, 1879), that Taillefer went before the Norman army singing of Charlemagne and of Roland and the vassals who died at Roncevaux, has been considered important in demonstrating the existence of a comparatively early tradition and song of Roland.
The song and insectivorous birds - thrushes, flycatchers, vireos and woodpeckers - of this latitude, are well represented, and the high plateaus (particularly the Pocono plateau) have especial ornithological interest as the tarrying-places, during the migratory seasons, of many species of birds whose natural breeding ground is much farther north.
Of late years there have been added to it a Liturgical Commission, a Historico-liturgical Commission, and a Commission for church song, the functions of which are sufficiently indicated by their names.
Their author Milaraspa (unless the work should be attributed to his disciples), often called Mila, was a Buddhist ascetic of the I ith century, who, during the intervals of meditation travelled through the southern part of middle Tibet as a mendicant friar, instructing the people by his improvisations in poetry and song, proselytizing, refuting and converting heretics, and working manifold miracles.
The Letters breathe the spirit of the New Comedy and the Alexandrine poets; portions of Letter 33 are almost literally translated in Ben Jonson's Song to Celia, " Drink to me only with thine eyes."
His sermons and devotional writings, which are very numerous, were long held in high estimation, and his Commentary on the Historical and Poetical Books of the Old Testament, in io vols., brought down as far as the Song of Solomon, was reprinted as recently as 1853.
Conspicuous by his variegated plumage, his peculiar call note 4 and his glad song, the cock is almost everywhere a favourite.
The titles of 105 of his works are mentioned in the Fihrist, and his Book of Days is the basis of parts of the history of Ibn al-Athir and of the Book of Songs (see Abulfaraj), but nothing of his (except a song) seems to exist now in an independent form.
This song, set to music by Auber, was on the lips of every Frenchman, and rivalled in popularity the Marseillaise.
Sicily, strangely enough, became the cradle of Italian song.
The chairman gave out a temperance song, and during the singing told Bright to put his notes aside and say what came into his mind.
Beside these works Ranch wrote a famous moralizing poem, entitled " A new song, of the nature and song of certain birds, in which many vices are punished, and many virtues praised."
As a dramatist, pure and simple, his bird-like instinct of song carried him too often into a sphere too exalted for the stage; but he has written nothing that is not stamped with the exquisite quality of distinction.
This sweet song of Schack von Staffeldt's, however, was early silenced by the louder choir that one by one broke into music around him.
J's version of the Song of Moses probably does not extend beyond xv.
Verse 19 is probably the work of the redactor (R P) who inserted the song.
Among the followers of the bishops were two clerics of Bamberg, Ezzo and Wille, who composed on the way the beautiful song on the miracles of Christ - one of the oldest hymns in the German language.
Their essential trait is their perennial cheerfulness, and their fondness for dance and song and every sort of amusement.
An interesting species of the song birds is popularly known as the " flautero " (flute-bird), which inhabits the eastern forests.
But apart from this, there is proof of the high antiquity of the college, which was said to have been older than Rome itself, in the verbal forms of the song with which, down to late times, a part of the ceremonies was accompanied, and which is still preserved.
The song and dance were followed by the election of officers for the next year, a banquet and races.
Binney was the pioneer in a much-needed improvement of the forms of service in Nonconformist churches, and gave a special impulse to congregational psalmody by the publication of a book entitled The Service of Song in the House of the Lord.
He flourished about 625 B.C. Several of the ancients ascribe to him the invention of the dithyramb and of dithyrambic poetry; it is probable, however, that his real service was confined to the organization of that verse, and the conversion of it from a mere drunken song, used in the Dionysiac revels, to a measured antistrophic hymn, sung by a trained body of performers.
Anion chose the latter, and as a last favour begged permission to sing a parting song.
We have no more of her work until 1429, when she broke her silence to write a song in honour of Joan of Arc. Of the circumstances of her death nothing is known but it probably took place about this time.
The Song of Absence, Peblis to the Play and Christis Kirk on the Greene have been ascribed to him without evidence.
They are nymphs of the sea, who, like the Lorelei of German legend, lured mariners to destruction by their sweet song.
Or, they symbolize the magic power of beauty, eloquence and song; hence their images are placed over the graves of beautiful women and maidens, of poets and orators (Sophocles, Isocrates).
If Beowulf, the champion of the Gautar, had already become a theme of epic song, the resemblance of name might easily suggest the idea of enriching history by adding to it the achievements of Beaw.
On the one hand, it is possible that the English epic, which unquestionably derived its historical elements from Scandinavian song, may be indebted to the same source for its general plan, including the blending of history and myth.
Let us now compare these data with the account given in the Homeric poems. The word " rhapsode " does not yet exist; we hear only of the singer " (aoc56s), who does not carry a wand or laurel-branch, but the lyre (40pyry), with which he accompanies his "song."
The song is on a subject taken from the Trojan war, at some point chosen by the singer himself, or by his hearers.
The favourite object of adoration with adherents of these sects is Krishna with his mate - but not the devoted friend and counsellor of the Pandavas and deified hero of epic song, nor the ruler of Dvaraka and wedded lord of Rukmini, but the juvenile Krishna, Govinda or Bala Gopala, "the cowherd lad," the foster son of the cowherd Nanda of Gokula, taken up with his amorous sports with the Gopis, or wives of the cowherds of Vrindavana (Brindaban,near Mathura on the Yamuna), especially his favourite mistress Radha or Radhika.
Yet they are not medieval in the same sense as the song of Roland or the Arthurian cycle.
The author has borrowed some 70 lines from the beginning of a poetical rendering of the Prayer of Azarias and the Song of the Three Children, of which there is a copy in the Exeter Book.
Out of this grew her Indian Story and Song from North America (1900), illustrating "a stage of development antecedent to that in which culture music appeared."
The two scholars in course of time created a movement resembling that of the I To be distinguished from scolium (oKOXLov), an after-dinner song.
Here, too, was discussed the canonicity of the Song of Songs and of Ecclesiastes, and it is probable that here Aqiba and his colleagues fixed the official text of the canonical books.
She dwells on high in the Heavenly Home, the radiant "Abode of song," but Zarathustra summons her thence, begs for her fellowship, and prays her for righteousness of thought, speech and deed.'
Anders Odel (1718-1773) wrote in 1739 the famous " Song of Malcolm Sinclair," the Sinclairsvisa.
Israel or distinguished Israelites, the root being the same as in Jeshurun; (2) that Jashar (" lc) is a transposition of shir C, song); (3) that it should be pointed Yashir (W, sing; cf.
The cicada's song resounds among the woods in the autumn; flights of locusts frequently appear after the summer, and they are carried by the prevailing winds even among the glaciers and eternal snows.
For after the death of himself and of his wives Buddhism gradually decayed, and was subjected by succeeding kings to cruel persecutions; and it was not till more than half a century afterwards, under King Kir Song de Tsan, who reigned 740-786, that true religion is acknowledged by the ecclesiastical historians to have become firmly established in the land.
Of song birds the favourites are the robin, thrushes, bobolink, oriole, chickadee, meadow-lark, cat-bird, bluebird, wrens and warblers.
When nineteen years old he corresponded with Mazzini, to whom he became whole-heartedly devoted; among other patriotic poems he wrote a hymn to the Bandiera brothers, and in the autumn of 1847 a song called "Fratelli d'Italia," which as Carducci wrote, "resounded through every district and on every battlefield of the peninsula in 1848 and 1849."
The submerged "bells of Aberdovey" (since Seithennin "the drunkard" caused the formation of Cardigan Bay) are famous in a Welsh song.
He was also the first of the reformers who used Danish instead of Latin in the church services, the "Even song" he introduced at Viborg being of great beauty.
The popular song "Prinz Eugen, der edle Ritter," commemorates the victory of Belgrade.
And yet we find Polychronius, early in the 5th century, stating that this song was not found in the Syriac version.
In 1613 Donne contributed to the Lachrymae lachrymarum an obscure and frigid elegy on the death of the prince of Wales, and wrote his famous Marriage Song for St Valentine's Day to celebrate the nuptials of the elector palatine with the princess Elizabeth.
In 1854 hejresigned his professorship. In the following year he gave to the world the Indian Edda, The Song of Hiawatha, a conscious imitation, both in subject and metre, of the Finnish epic, the Kalevala, with which he had become acquainted during his second visit to Europe.
In 1872 appeared Three Books of Song, containing translated as well as original pieces, in 1873 Aftermath and in 1875 The Mask of Pandora, and other Poems. Among these "other poems" were "The Hanging of the Crane," "Morituri Salutamus" and "A Book of Sonnets."
It is through this song that the form "Avoca" is most familiar, although the name is locally spelt "Ovoca."
His story is one "Which never yet was heard in tale or song From old or modern bard, in hall or bower."
One of its episodes, the farewell song of the prince departing into the forest, has since become one of the most widespread popular songs.
At the same time a song was sung, in which the god was entreated to be propitious in the coming year.
He is Boedromios (" the helper"), Eleleus (" god of the war-cry"), and the Paean was said to have been originally a song of triumph composed by him of ter his victory over Python.
The metrical form of the oracular responses at Delphi, the important part played by the paean and the Pythian nomos in his ritual, contributed to make Apollo a god of song and music, friend and leader of the Muses (µovvayErr i s).
The swan and grasshopper symbolize music and song; the hawk, raven, crow and snake have reference to his functions as the god of prophecy.
Some recent discoveries have proved that certain statements in the song usually regarded as anachronisms are quite accurate; but no nearer approach has been made towards fixing its exact date, or that of any of the three bits into which it has been cut up. In this song the story appears in its full-blown shape, the name of Winckelriet being given.
Assuming this, and rejecting the evidence of the 1476 chronicle as an interpolation and full of mistakes, and that of the song as not proved to have been in existence before 1531, Herr Burkli comes to the startling conclusion that the phalanx formation of the Austrians, as well as the name and act of Winkelried, have been transferred to Sempach from the fight of Bicocca, near Milan (April 27, 1522), where a real leader of the Swiss mercenaries in the pay of France, Arnold Winkelried, reall y met his death in very much the way that his namesake perished according to the story.
In American balladry he was pre-eminent; such pieces as " The Swan Song of Parson Avery," " Marguerite," " Barclay of Ury," " Skipper Ireson's Ride," " In the ` Old South,' " hold their place in literature.
It is necessary above all to consider the relation of a people's years of growth and ferment to the song which represents them; for in the strains of Whittier, more than in those of any other 19th-century lyrist, the saying of Fletcher of Saltoun as to the ballads and laws of a nation finds a historic illustration.
Along with the Quaker poet's homing sense and passion for liberty of body and soul, religion and patriotism are the dominant notes of his song.
The inward voice was his inspiration, and of all American poets he was the one whose song was most like a prayer.
The song birds and insectivorous birds include the cardinal grosbeak, scarlet and summer tanagers, meadow lark, song sparrow, catbird, brown thrasher, wood thrush, house wren, robin, blue bird, goldfinch, red-headed woodpecker, flicker (golden-winged woodpecker), and several species of warblers.
From the refrain of a song, sung night after night at a Lon.don music hall, its members became known as Jingoes.
The odes which he published at the age of twenty, admirable for their spontaneous fervour and fluency, might have been merely the work of a marvellous boy; the ballads which followed them two years later revealed him as a great poet, a natural master of lyric and creative song.
All the poet and all the man spoke out and stood evident in the perfervid patriotism, the filial devotion, the fatherly tenderness, the indignation and the pity, which here find alternate expression in passionate and familiar and majestic song.
In 1877 appeared the second series of La Legende des siecles; and in the same year the author of that colossal work, treating no less of superhuman than of human things, gave us the loveliest and most various book of song on the loveliest and simplest of subjects ever given to man, L' Art d'être grandpere.
The pathetic song of "Lochaber no more" was written by Allan Ramsay.
The more characteristic and useful birds include many species of the sparrow, such as the song, swamp, Lincoln's chipping and field sparrow; the bank, barn, cliff, white-bellied and rough-winged swallow, as well as the purple martin and the chimney swift; ten or more species of fly-catchers, including the least, arcadian, phoebe, wood pewee, olive-sided and king bird; about ten species of woodpeckers, of which the more common are the downy, hairy, yellowbellied and golden-winged (flicker); about thirty species of warblers, including the parula, cerulean, Blackburnian, prothonotary, yellow Nashville, red-start, worm-eating and chestnut-sided; and four or five species of vireos.
It is highly probable that Deborah's song was also originally in this book; and when we compare the statement in that song as to Israel's full fighting strength, viz.
To the same association may be traced her slight connexion with music, song and dance.
Iceland has always borne a high renown for song, but has never produced a poet of the highest order, the qualities which in other lands were most sought for and admired in poetry being in Iceland lavished on the saga, a prose epic, while Icelandic poetry is to be rated very high for the one quality which its authors have ever aimed at - melody of sound.
There are also fragments of poems in Half's Saga, Asmund KappaBana's Saga, in the Latin verses of Saxo, and the Shield Lays (Ragnarsdrapa) by Bragi, &c., of this school, which closes with the Sun-Song, a powerful Christian Dantesque poem, recalling some of the early compositions of the Irish Church, and with the 12th-century Lay of Ragnar, Lay of Starkad, The Proverb Song (Havamal) and Krakumal, to which we may add those singular Gloss-poems, the Pulur, which also belong to the Western Isles.
The most notable of its class is the Lilia of Eystein Asgrimsson, a monk of Holyfell (c. 1350), a most " sweet sounding song."
The idea that he had anything to do with the poetic Edda in general, or the Sun's Song in particular, is unfounded.
He wished to enter the preaching ministry but was excluded by Calvin's influence because he had criticized the inspiration of the Song of Solomon and the Genevan interpretation of the clause "he descended into hell."
A correspondence took place between him and Burns, who considered his "Tullochgorum" "the best Scotch song Scotland ever saw," and procured his collaboration for Johnson's Musical Museum.
Song birds are numerous and of many varieties; among them are thrushes, mocking birds, blue birds, robins, wrens, chickadees, warblers, vireos, sparrows, bobolinks (reed birds or rice birds), meadow larks and orioles.
The situation depicted is in striking contrast with that of the Song.
The Mantis is defeated in an encounter with a cat which happened to be singing a song about a lynx.
Cicadas are chiefly remarkable for the shrill song of the males, which in some cases may be heard in concert at a distance of a quarter of a mile or more.
Although no auditory organs have been found in the females, the song of the males is believed to serve as a sexual call.
Here the sweet song is first mentioned - a song which, according to the poem on the phoenix ascribed to.
His poems, which are essentially lyrical, have been collected in various volumes, including Five Books of Song (1894), In Palestine and other Poems (1898), Poems and Inscriptions(1901), and In the Heights (1905).
The memory of Kiligia (Cilicia) is enshrined in a popular song, and at Zeitun, in the recesses of Mount Taurus, a small Armenian community has hitherto maintained almost complete independence.
For, as in the legend of Sigurd the Volsung, the plot had turned upon the love and vengeance of Brunhild, so in the song of the Nibelungs it is the love and vengeance of Kriemhild, the Gudrun of the northern saga, that forms the backbone of the story and gives it from first to last an artistic unity which the V olsungasaga lacks.
She'll soon sing a different song when I, the leader of this orchestra, flail my baton.
It rang loudly in the hall, a rap song spitting F-bombs that made her eyebrows rise.
Enough advance-booked summer guests allowed cautious optimism that Bird Song the business had a chance of making it—barely.
Now, thanks to an overzealous social worker, Martha was scheduled to become reacquainted with mommy dearest—in Denver, over three hundred miles away from Bird Song's nest.
Bird Song's balance sheet remained out of balance, still tilted toward the red side.
I know you and I can squeak by with Bird Song, but the State of Colorado must see us as a pair of paupers struggling to put bread on the table.
It's cool here at Bird Song and I need a little R and R. Great food, he added as he stuffed two rolls in his pocket.
Martha was toddled off to bed for her final night under Bird Song's ancient eaves, the doors locked and pajamas donned before Dean resurrected the question of Fred's curious reaction to the jury summons.
Later, much later, Dean had spelled her, sitting up with Martha, who was far more upset with the prospect of flying Bird Song's nest than she let on during the daylight hours.
The weather, as if to accommodate the mood at Bird Song, was gray, slipping to a steady drizzle by midday, with a rerun of March in the temperature department.
It's too busy at Bird Song and I've been—goofing off all morning.
Dinner was a quiet affair, cooked by the returning Fred O'Connor—hamburgers, a tad over-broiled, but the Deans appreciated the effort as they were busy with Bird Song's other chores.
Cynthia would attend the New Jersey wedding—thank God for Visa—while Fred and Dean would hold down Bird Song.
Mr. Dean wished he felt a modicum of confidence in himself as the three drifted off to sleep—David and Cynthia Dean, with SB, the Bird Song owl, snuggled next to them.
He needed a little mind-clearing R and R. Bird Song showed no damage from a day of substitute management.
The warmth of the evening chased out Bird Song's guests—all non-dieters probably queuing up for ice cream, or maybe simply promenading the Victorian village streets as alpenglow painted the surrounding peaks in pink.
Bird Song wasn't locked and the place was empty most of today—even Maria was watching the parade.
Two hours remained before the last of the day's celebrations— the Jeep flare parade down the mountain, followed by a massive fireworks display—so after finishing supper, the Deans began playing catch up with Bird Song's chores.
Thoughts raced through his mind of another crash, when Bird Song's very first guest had met a similar fate—but on a traveled highway, not a remote Jeep road deep in the San Juans.
Then he thought, Screw the diet, and stopped for a six-pack of Fat Tire on his way back to Bird Song.
Dean's day was calming down, mellowed by his minimal consumption of ale and the coziness of Bird Song's kitchen.
The bumps occurred as an interruption of Dean's otherwise peaceful dream of Cynthia bathing in a misplaced Colorado lagoon, complete with palm trees—altering the vision to something involving a Volkswagen driving down Bird Song's stairs.
Dean continued to struggle with paper work throughout the afternoon, almost oblivious to the comings and goings of Bird Song as he shuffled unpaid bills and government forms.
Dean read the paper as he sat in his Jeep—I'll be at Bird Song in an hour.
We shouldn't give ourselves away by using Bird Song's e-mail or mine.
Smiling Maria continued to be a joy at Bird Song and was learning English far quicker than the Deans would ever learn her native tongue.
Peace of mind was accelerated by the presence of Martha, now a full-fledged member of Bird Song's nest.
After an hour and a half of sore but thorough pleasure, they left, exhausted, with rosy cheeks, wet backsides and aching ankles for the warmth and comfort of Bird Song and mugs of steaming hot chocolate.
Janet O'Brien was a local woman who remained on call to Bird Song, assisting with the domestic chores of running the bed and breakfast, at least when the number of guests required additional help.
However, the children found the soil spring-soft next to the building foundation, thanks to the Dean's fuel-bill contributions and the poor insulation of Bird Song.
He hoped things were more peaceful out in the galaxy that here at Bird Song.
He kept saying Bird Song isn't in his jurisdiction and any trouble Shipton caused would be the city's problem.
Dean called Sheriff Weller, concerned that Jerome Shipton would further disrupt Bird Song but Weller could offer little help.
In spite of the closeness of the park to Bird Song, this was Cynthia's first view of ice climbing.
Now you're Bird Song's resident expert on girls of the night!
After dinner, and obligatory rave reviews by the other two-thirds of Bird Song's management team, Dean joined Cynthia in the parlor.
Cynthia would go alone—that was a given with Bird Song requiring Dean's attention.
During the night, he'd turned the matter over in his mind, and kept coming back to the fact that someone from Bird Song had killed Shipton and any objective viewer would be taking a long and hard look at David Dean as that person.
Dean guessed Shipton wanted Janet to somehow intercede in getting him into Bird Song, before he was able to obtain a room on his own.
Later, Dean heard the movement of the mortuary men coming for Edith—the hushed conversation and the bumping and thumping as the lifeless shell of this troubled woman was bagged and forever removed from Bird Song.
There were whispered conversations about money—hers, Dean presumed—followed by excited talk of the man driving up from some obscure New Mexico town to meet her at Bird Song.
Bird Song remained nearly empty during the week and half full weekends when get-away folks from Grand Junction, and sometimes even Colorado Springs or Denver, left the kiddies with grandma and snuck over the mountains for a little R and R. An occasional ice climber continued to remind the group of the receding memories of the recent tragic past.
At least something good had come out of Edith Shipton's ill-fated stay at Bird Song.
While no one was in sight, Dean recognized the line, wrapped around a gnarled cedar, as the same color that had been stored at Bird Song.
Cynthia, Fred, and Dean with a cane nearby, rocked in unison, albeit bundled and mittened, but content to have Bird Song to themselves, at least until the weekend.
Even so, he knew Tim was as vulnerable as any man to the siren song of absolute power.
He'll become a part of the chorus and sing a song on his friends.
Not everything works; for example, "Rock Star" is a pretty banal song.
I love the way Wim Wenders used this song on American Friend, his greatest homage to classic film noir.
The love song has been the most enduring and endearing pop music art form.
He's very meticulous about picking the right song.
Their second song, "Out in the Woods," is unbearably poignant with aching cello and strange, pained Eastern European strings.
She's a seasoned singer and performer with a great "feel" for a song and warm, humourous audience rapport.
It's a good song to take, because it's solo acoustic guitar plus Stuart Murdoch.
His voice is perfect, but the thing that is truly cool, is to hear Garcia solo on a blues song ala Clapton.
It's a fantastic uplifting anthem of a song!
Sometimes just framing a song in a series of unhurried guitar arpeggios.
It was the uniquely authoritative voice of Nina Simone, however, which succeeded in making I Loves You Porgy such a pivotal song.
Of course no surf song would be complete without some ba ba ba ba bas, which were also duly delivered.
The unexpected reggae backbeat mainly coming from Tommyâs direction added a new dimension to the song.
The lilting tones of folk balladry drape the narrative voice of Sunset Song.
Finally came the hilarious Welcome To West Texas, a song about the local weather which would make even Manchester's weather seem balmy.
I am honestly amazed that more artists don't use between song banter to talk about who they want to " fook " .
This is the ultimate word on Burns; a collection of every single song and poem written by Scotland's best know bard.
I kept bursting into song - O Sio Mio or whatever leaped from by bass baritone chest and echoed around the walls.
No time is wasted with between song banter yet this only adds to the dark guitar fuzz and throbbing bass.
Moments of primal screaming occasionally burst through in this caged beast of a song.
A Song For All Seasons opens with a flurry of sleigh bells, but before you can say " Is it Christmas again already?
With what a heavenly song and divine benediction did Moses conclude his life?
The dove produces a lament instead of a song, because anything it does with pleasure, it then bewails aloud.
It includes blackthorn, hawthorn, dog rose and other plants which should offer a rich habitat to hedgerow birds such as song thrushes.
In contrast " One Of These Days " is a slow almost breathless song telling of desperate longing for better times.