A song of love, an amorous song.
a. 1310. in Wright, Lyric P., 74. Iesu, thi love is suete ant strong … Tech me, Ihesu, thi love song, With suete teres ever among.
1591. Shaks., Two Gent., II. i. 20. First, you haue learn’d … to rellish a Loue-song.
1653. Walton, Angler, i. 29. Solomon … wrote that … holy amorous love-song, the Canticles.
1833. Tennyson, Miller’s D., 65. A love-song I had somewhere read.
1883. H. Drummond, Nat. Law in Spir. W. (ed. 2), 154. The bird … listens to the love-song of its mate.
