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

For earth yet keeps her undersong Of comfort and of ultimate peace, That whoso seeks shall never cease To hear at dawn or noon or night.

From Georgian Poetry 1916-17 Edited by Sir Edward Howard Marsh by Marsh, Edward Howard, Sir

The afternoon was past its height, but bright yet, with the undersong of the wind and of Thunder Run.

From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary

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