undersong

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The undersong of Dot’s unconscious gets lost in all the quotidian bustle.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2023

The undersong here is underplumage: those jewel-like greens and purples and reds you can spot beneath the oil-slick surface of certain black-feathered birds.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 12, 2017

Ah! many an hour I sat and read, And God seemed with me all day long; Joy murmured a sweet undersong, I talkt with angels, with them fed.

From International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science — Volume 1, No. 4, July 22, 1850 by Various

And yet to you and not to me belong   Those finer instincts that, like second sight And hearing, catch creation's undersong,       And see by inner light.

From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Ingelow, Jean

Too long, too long,     You have forgot my undersong.

From The Little Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets by Rittenhouse, Jessie Belle