Volkslied

So we invite the Congress to hospitable and British Kimberley, where public meetings close with singing the British National Anthem and not with singing the "Volkslied" or the

Chapter XV Solomon Tshekisho 1916

It is that of the "Volkslied," or popular song, and in these far-back days it holds somewhat the same place in German literature that the ballad does in our own.

Christian Singers of Germany 1869

The Volkslied remained a popular vehicle for lyric poetry, having gradually expanded to a polyphonic Lied in style.

1558-64 2001

Volkslied without forsaking the proper limits of artistic poetry.

Paul Gerhardt as a Hymn Writer and his Influence on English Hymnody 1976

Our poet has shown preference for the older German strophes which belong to popular poetry and had most firmly held their own in the spiritual song because of its relation to the Volkslied and also for the Nibelungen strophe of eight lines.

Paul Gerhardt as a Hymn Writer and his Influence on English Hymnody 1976

Strikers sang the 'Red Flag', the 'Marseillaise', and 'Die Volkslied', the old Transvaal republican anthem.

The Rise of the South African Reich - Chapter 2 1969

A Volkslied came to her mind, one she had heard as a child and been rocked to, a peasant song, simple and touching.

The Black Cross Olive M. Briggs

They sang a verse of a hymn and the Volkslied (their national anthem), and after listening to a short address from their commandant, they dispersed.

From Aldershot to Pretoria A Story of Christian Work among Our Troops in South Africa W. E. Sellers

_Volkslied_ of a class that tries to ape its social superiors.

Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama George Ainslie Hight

She felt excited by the grandeur of the situation, and, in the pauses of the wind, sang low some wild German Volkslied.

Bluebell A Novel Mrs. George Croft Huddleston