aubade

Example Sentences

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One of the best, “Aubade East,” is set in Harlem.

From New York Times

But don’t mistake any old aubade for all-purpose morning music.

From Washington Post

Philip Larkin, in “Aubade”, writes of waking at four and, until dawn finally arrives, seeing only what is always there: “Unresting death”.

From The Guardian

He marvels at the divine radiance pouring “into every / nook and cranny not overhung or hidden” in Ammons’s “The City Limits,” and lapses into the language of an excited teenager when pointing out that Philip Larkin’s “Aubade” can give readers “serious ice in their spines.”

From New York Times

In honor of his neighborhood in North Philly, which is undergoing gentrification, Iain Haley Pollock has given a face-lift to the morning love song called the aubade.

From New York Times