What is sang?

Famous quotes containing the word sang:

    “Calico Pie,
    The little Birds fly
    Down to the calico tree,
    Their wings were blue,
    And they sang “Tilly-loo!”
    Till away they flew—
    And they never came back to me!”
    —Edward Lear (1812–1888)

    “When cups went round at close of day
    Is not that how good stories run?
    The gods were sitting at the board
    In their great house at Slievenamon.
    They sang a drowsy song, or snored,
    For all were full of wine and meat.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “In the morning,
    The jack-rabbit sang to the Arkansaw.
    He carolled in caracoles
    On the feat sandbars.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)