"Love song" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and so was the dialect of his poem, although the {45} unique MS. of it is in the Scotch spelling. The King's Quhair is somewhat overladen with ornament and with the fashionable allegorical devices, but it is, upon the whole, a rich and tender love song, the best specimen of court poetry between the time of Chaucer and the time of Spenser. The lady who walked in the garden on that May morning was Jane Beaufort, niece to Henry IV. She was married to her poet ...
— Brief History of English and American Literature • Henry A. Beers
... Bells." Father would be whispering over to himself the speech he was preparing to make at the next prayer-meeting. We never could learn his speeches, because he read and studied so much it kept his head so full, he made a new one every time. You could hear Laddie's deep bass booming the "Bedouin Love Song" for a mile; this minute it came ...
— Laddie • Gene Stratton Porter
... along precipitous paths he led the way buoyantly and now and then he broke into low almost inaudible crooning of an ancient love song. ...
— A Pagan of the Hills • Charles Neville Buck
... to play again slowly, dreamily, hardly knowing how or why, a weird, chanting Polish improvisation like a love song, a song without words. His eyes opened and closed again. Always that gaze, pleading, wrestling, that flower-like face, ...
— The Black Cross • Olive M. Briggs
... long moment he and I sat again involved in the emptiness of the universe that Tristan's love song had opened for us, and I knew that with ruthless feet I had entered his Holy of Holies and was being allowed ...
— The Heart's Kingdom • Maria Thompson Daviess
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