Nightingales Quotes

“I have heard the nightingale herself.”

“O Nightingale,
Cease from thy enamoured tale.”

“The angel of spring, the mellow-throated nightingale.”

“Like a wedding-song all-melting
Sings the nightingale, the dear one.”

“One nightingale in an interfluous wood
Satiate the hungry dark with melody.”

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“For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed,
So poets live upon the living light.”

“To the red rising moon, and loud and deep
The nightingale is singing from the steep.”

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“Where the nightingale doth sing
Not a senseless, tranced thing,
But divine melodious truth.”

“Lend me your song, ye Nightingales! O, pour
The mazy-running soul of melody
Into my varied verse.”

“As it fell upon a day
In the merry month of May,
Sitting in a pleasant shade
Which a grove of myrtles made.”

“"Most musical, most melancholy" bird!
A melancholy bird! Oh! idle thought!
In nature there is nothing melancholy.”

“Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day
First heard before the shallow cuckoo's bill,
Portend success in love.”

“Where beneath the ivy shade,
In the dew-besprinkled glade,
Many a love-lorn nightingale,
Warbles sweet her plaintive tale.”

“Last night the nightingale woke me,
Last night, when all was still.
It sang in the golden moonlight,
From out the woodland hill.”

“The nightingale appear'd the first,
And as her melody she sang,
The apple into blossom burst,
To life the grass and violets sprang.”

“Sweet bird that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among,
I woo, to hear thy even-song.”

“It is the hour when from the boughs
The nightingale's high note is heard;
It is the hour when lovers' vows
Seem sweet in every whisper'd word.”

“I said to the Nightingale:
"Hail, all hail!
Pierce with thy trill the dark,
Like a glittering music-spark,
When the earth grows pale and dumb."”