heartsong

Noun

heartsong (plural heartsongs)

1. (obsolete) A heartwarming song or poem.
   • How the crest-hunting rich and the wealth-seeking wearers of inherited honors and the popularity-seeking and place-hunting politicians whom their promoters half satirically style “great” dwindle when compared with this man, who with a few simple little heartsongs had won the love of children, had...1895, Johnson Brigham, Midland Monthly Magazine - Volume 4, page 572
   • Many of his lyrics are heartsongs that will chord with human life as long as it has sorrows and aspirations.1896, Self Culture - Volume 3, page 524
2. A song or message that is deeply heartfelt.
   • With hymning we will praise Thee, Our heartsong we lift up to Thee, Thou glorious evermore;1883, University of Michigan Student Religious Association, Bulletin, page 191
   • So we, when our Great High Priest shall come, Begirt of power, enrobed of state, And the peoples of ten thousand isles With eager joy His advent wait, Shall hail, with a heartsong of rapture, His step on our sin-furrowed strand ; Shall march, with the grand triumphal throng, In the glow of a...1893, Elizabeth Susan MacLeod, Carols of Canada, Etc., Etc, page 31
3. The expression of a person's inner essence, underlying identity, and reason for existence.
   • All cathedrals, pontificalities, brass and stone, and outer arrangement never so lasting, are brief in comparison to an unfathomable heartsong like this : one feels as if it might survive, still of importance to men, when these had all sunk into new irrecognisable combinations, and had ceased...1863, Sartor Resartus (1831).: Lectures on Heroes (1840)., page 259
   • The words he speaks carry a familiar message. He lifts me up to sing my infinite heartsong. He is a musical tone that rings out to embrace the morning sky.2005, Roger Calverley, The Primal Runes: Archetypes of Invocation and Empowerment, →ISBN