- Blissful scene - Descriptive poem - Father leaves lily pad out of pastoral scene - fleeting romance - Happy situation - Love poem - Pastoral composition (mus)
- Part song for unaccompanied voices - A little amorous poem, sometimes called a pastoral poem,
containing some tender and delicate, though simple, thought. - An unaccompanied polyphonic song, in four, five, or more
parts, set to secular words, but full of counterpoint and imitation,
and adhering to the old church modes. Unlike the freer glee, it is best
sung with several voices on a part. See Glee.
- idyllic - relating to rural life - Rustic - Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd;
pastoral; rustic. - A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life,
manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of Theocritus
and Virgil.
- A pastoral poem, in which shepherds are introduced
conversing with each other; a bucolic; an idyl; as, the Ecloques of
Virgil, from which the modern usage of the word has been established.
- Narrative poem - Pastoral composition (mus) - A short poem; properly, a short pastoral poem; as, the idyls
of Theocritus; also, any poem, especially a narrative or descriptive
poem, written in an eleveted and highly finished style; also, by
extension, any artless and easily flowing description, either in poetry
or prose, of simple, rustic life, of pastoral scenes, and the like.