The humming-bird, like a courtier gay, Dipped down with a dalliant song, And twanged his wings through the roundelay Of love the whole day long: Yet my rose turned from his minstrelsy And hid in the leaves in wait for me.
Lilt thy song, and lute away In the wildest fashion:-- Pour thy rippling roundelay O'er the heights of passion!
Or was't the stripling Youth, whose roundelay Awoke the echoes of the throbbing day And changed to gladness all the world's dull mien, Glad roads of Spring?
He then began to sing, performing a series of cantabile movements in the most ludicrous manner possible; sometimes chanting a Miserere or an Ave, then breaking into some wild northern ballad or roundelay of unintelligible import.
Steenie was humming a plaintive ditty, or rather dirge; for it partook of a double character, something between an alehouse roundelay and a funeral chant.
Come, blitheful neatherds, let us lay A wager who the best shall play, Of thee or I, the roundelay That fits the business of the day.
In this regard: that thou do'st play Upon another plain, And for a rural roundelay Strik'st now a courtly strain.
Alas for the loosened strings to-day, And the wounds of rift and scar On a worn old heart, with its roundelay Enthralled with a stronger bar That Fate weaves on, through a dull decay Like that of the old guitar!
Roundelay and true grape wine, Love we them for ever.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "roundelay" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
