Careful Words

singing (n.)

singing (adj.)

For ever singing as they shine,

The hand that made us is divine.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719): Ode.

  For my voice, I have lost it with halloing and singing of anthems.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.

  For, lo! the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.

Old Testament: The Song of Solomon ii. 11, 12.

A damsel with a dulcimer

In a vision once I saw:

It was an Abyssinian maid,

And on her dulcimer she played,

Singing of Mount Abora.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834): Kubla Khan.

  A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.

John Milton (1608-1674): The Reason of Church Government. Introduction, Book ii.

Let the singing singers

With vocal voices, most vociferous,

In sweet vociferation out-vociferize

Even sound itself.

Henry Carey (1663-1743): Chrononhotonthologos. Act i. Sc. 1.