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

Between their kisses they spoke of things remembered, and of things to be, leaning to each other in visible sweetness, while "Love breathed in sighs and silences  Through two blent souls, one rapturous undersong."

From The Maid of Maiden Lane by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

They have been left as in the original. bed-side bedside church-yard churchyard death-bell deathbell demi-god demigod no-where nowhere re-united reunited sun-rise sunrise under-grove undergrove under-song undersong The following words have variations in spelling.

From Keats: Poems Published in 1820 by Robertson, M. (Margaret)

O, listen to the undersong, The ever old, the ever young; And, far within those cadent pauses, The chorus of the ancient Causes!

From Poems Household Edition by Emerson, Ralph Waldo