Other boys and girls had their books ofsongs also, including Uncle Henry.
I have one copy of those songs and there is a copy of them filed away at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.
His dances are magical dances, his images are made for a magical purpose, his songs are incantations.
Next follow the songs of farewell, the mother telling the daughter of what she will have to endure in a strange home: 'Thy life was soft and delicate in thy father's house.
These songs have been collected in Scotland by Scott and Motherwell; their Danish counterparts have been translated by Mr. Prior.
At length the annexation of Finland by Russia, in 1809, awakened national feeling, and stimulated research into the songs and customs which were the heirlooms of the people.
We do not wish to strew sugar on bottled spiders, or try to make mystical divinity out of the Song of Solomon, much less out of the erotic and bacchanalian songs of Hafiz.
Songs of triumph, and shouts of joy, of both saints and angels, have ceased for one hour of eternity.
We are told that they celebrated the creation of this world "with songs of praise and shouts of joy.
When she married Mr. Tom Taylor she continued to publish her talented songs under her maiden name.
After more successes he began to compose thesongs so well known to-day.
About the same time he wrote ballad poetry, but finding the output a strain, he prepared a series of entertainments which he entitled "Irish Evenings," in which he embodied songs and music of his own composition.
Fontaine had been imitated most elegantly by the young Prince himself, and to these rather frivolous verses he had joined some songs and madrigals.
At the news of their approach, all Paris echoed the songs of triumph that M.
The banquet was enlivened at intervals by songs from professional singers, hired for the occasion.
This is a large collection of songs for the nursery, for childhood, for boys and for girls, and sacred songs for all.
The best compilation of songs for the children that we have ever seen.
In most of our patriotic songs it is contrasted with the fricasseed frogs, popularly supposed to be the exclusive diet of Frenchmen.
Other songs followed; and Mr. Poletiss, being a young gentleman of a meek appearance and still meeker voice, lyrically informed the company that "Oh!
Dancing then succeeds, varied by songs from the young ladies, and discharges of chromatic fireworks from the fingers
Their enthusiasm was quite exciting and made me feel almost like writing war songs myself.
The standard of taste in vocal music was not high in the early 'forties: Punch satirizes the prevalent sentimentality in songs by suggesting in 1842 as a title "Brush back that briny tear.
Many songs were made in that time for the hour's diversion, and are near all forgot.
And in their eyes the dreams she fought for, In their hands the flowers she sought for, On their lips the songs that here she did not sing!
For his tempted heart and wandering feet, Were the songs of David less pure and sweet?
Now let the merriest tales be told, And let the sweetest songs be sung That ever made the old heart young!
Oh for the purple harvests Of the days when I was young For the merry grape-stained maidens, And the pleasant songs they sung!
The songs they still are singing Who dress the hills of vine, The tales that haunt the Brocken And whisper down the Rhine.
Winging her virgin-flight to snowclad pinnacles of Parnassus she pours her jubilant songs of hope, faith, love into men's souls and women's hearts.
The songs are in praise of the deity, at whose and the soothsayer's feet the applicant prostrates himself, and invokes their aid.
At night, songs are sung in praise of that deity by a Tiyattunni and his followers.
They sing songs to the accompaniment of a band about their devil Nicha, and offer toddy and a rice pudding boiled in a large earthen pot, which is broken so that the pudding remains as a solid mass.
Then, after a time, we established for the principal clerks and goods agents and certain grades of station masters, an annual day excursion into the country, with a dinner and songs and speeches.
The publication of his poems and songs was attended with great success.
One of Mr. Montgomery's most telling serious songs was sung in the costume of a sailor.
Well, you might reasonably have been offended with both the songs and the company.
It was as if his Satanic Majesty himself had condescended to appear from below and sing comic songs for their benefit.
Enough to make one invent new songs of Araby just to see them sparkle and soften.
Thy statutes have beensongs for me, In my house of sojourning.
How wide the gulf separating this "undisturbed song" of pure home joys from the foul ideals which baser songs try to adorn!
There is much in the group of songsto favour this view; but against it is the fact that Psalms cxxii.
Since He has, the pilgrims can march "with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads," and all about their moving camp the sound of song may echo.
And the singers were not influenced by superstition, but by reverence and by sadness, when they could not sing these songs in that strange land.
Songs unheard" are sometimes not only "sweetest," but the truest worship.
The "day" in which unmingled gladness inspires our songs has not yet dawned, fair as are the many days which Jehovah has made.
The songs which are not winged by the singer's joy in singing will not rise high.
Shrill cries of gladness, loud shouts of praise, songs with musical accompaniments, rang simultaneously through the courts, and to Western ears would have sounded as din rather than as music, and as more exuberant than reverent.
For there our captors required of us words of song, And our plunderers [required of us] mirth; "Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
It was his duty to plan previously the proper sequence of the dances and songs, and it was also his duty to start all songs and to carry the air.
Some songswere very lively and the steps correspondingly rapid, while others were much slower.
The head singer had to possess a very good voice, and had to make it his business to know the songs for the various ceremonies.
Songs were sometimes sung independently and unaccompanied by dancing.
I regretted much leaving this man; he had naturally a cheerful disposition, and he used often to beguile the watches of the night with the songs of our dear native land.
Songs are composed in his honour, which the company frequently sing in concert; but they are so loaded with gross adulation, that no man but a Moorish despot could hear them without blushing.
This scene of instruction, however, is frequently interrupted by girls, who amuse the company with songs and dances, which are rather more remarkable for their gaiety than delicacy.
These are a sort of travelling bards and musicians, who sing extempore songs in praise of those who employ them.
After he had spent his last gold breast-pin in advertisements, he realised that to get piano-forte pupils in London was as easy as to get songs published.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "songs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
