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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: NIGHTINGALES Matches Found: 136 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A COLONY OF NIGHTINGALES, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I placed the mute eggs of the nightingale Last Line: Nor knows the rival choir she settled here! Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales A NIGHTINGALE AT FRESNOY, by JESSIE BELL RITTENHOUSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never, they say, were guns so loud Last Line: To sing the song of life! Alternate Author Name(s): Scollard, Clinton, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Life; Nightingales; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War A NIGHTINGALE IN KENSINGTON GARDENS, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They paused, the cripple in the chair Last Line: And praise and audience fail.' Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Birds; Kensington Gardens; Nightingales A RICHER FREIGHT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: You nightingales, that came so far Last Line: To learn -- next spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Birds; Migration; Nightingales AL FAR DELLA NOTTE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! / as a bubbling fount Last Line: On the flower of the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Birds; Love; Nightingales; Rome, Italy; Singing & Singers AN ADDRESS TO THE NIGHTINGALE (FROM ARISTOPHANES), by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O dear one, with tawny wings Last Line: Even the throne-room of god it shall fill! Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Aristophanes (450-388 B.c.); Birds; Dramatists; Nightingales; Plays & Playwrights AN EVENING ADDRESS TO A NIGHTINGALE, SELECTION, by CUTHBERT SHAW Poem Text First Line: Sweet bird! That, kindly perching near Last Line: "and opes a glorious passage to the skies.'" Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales APRIL, by JOHN KEBLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lessons sweet of spring returning Last Line: Trust entire, and ceaseless praise. Variant Title(s): First Sunday After Epiphany;the Nightingale;influences Of Spring Subject(s): April; Birds; Nightingales BALLAD TO THE TUNE OF 'TO PARLIAMENT THE QUEEN IS GONE', by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This april last a gentle swain Last Line: She shall be thine own. Subject(s): Omens; Nightingales BIANCA AMONG THE NIGHTINGALES, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cypress stood up like a church Last Line: The nightingales, the nightingales! Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales BOOK OF SONGS: PREFACE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the olden fairy wood! Last Line: "have never ceased to ponder." Subject(s): Birds; Forests; Love; Moon; Nightingales; Singing & Singers; Woods; Songs CANADIAN ROSSIGNOL (IN MAY), by EDWARD WILLIAM THOMSON Poem Source First Line: When furrowed fields of shaded brown Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales CHARADE: 13, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My first has spread her darksome wing Last Line: Tis but a tiny preposition. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales CHINESE NIGHTINGALE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long before dawn your light Last Line: You were at your trade. Subject(s): Nightingales; Dawn COST, by PEARL COUNCIL HIATT Poem Text First Line: Not when the songbird soaring finds Last Line: Earth hears its sweetest singing. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales DAMASCUS NIGHTINGALE, by STEPHEN CROMBIE Poem Source First Line: On the crimson edge of the eve Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales DESOLATION, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the plum-blossoms are nightingales Subject(s): Nightingales EARLY NIGHTINGALE, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first we hear the shy-come nightingale Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales ECHOES: 45, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the brake the nightingale Last Line: Love a last year's rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Nightingales; Roses ELEGIAC SONNET: 3. TO THE NIGHTINGALE, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor melancholy bird - that all night long Last Line: To sigh, and sing at liberty -- like thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales ELEGIAC SONNET: 55. THE RETURN OF THE NIGHTINGALE, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Borne on the warm wing of the western gale Last Line: As shut my languid sense -- to hope's dear voice and thine! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales ELEGIAC SONNET: 7. ON THE DEPARTURE OF THE NIGHTINGALE, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet poet of the woods - a long adieu! Last Line: And still be dear to sorrow, and to love! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales FABLES FOR THE LADIES: THE NIGHTINGALE AND GLOW-WORM, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The prudent nymph, whose cheeks disclose Last Line: And beauty wrecks whom she adorns.' Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Nature; Nightingales FAIRFORD NIGHTINGALES, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The nightingales at fairford sing Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales HAST THOU HEARD THE NIGHTINGALE?, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I have heard the nightingale Last Line: Yes, I have heard the nightingale. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales HERE LIES PIERROT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moon's ashine; by many a lane Last Line: The moon's ashine; here lies pierrot. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Love; Moon; Nightingales; Dead, The HORIZONS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: On the way to paris, but toward nemours the Last Line: Hours of night chanted the nightingale. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales; Paris, France; Singing & Singers; Songs IF HE WERE NOT ENTHRALLED ...., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her parasol's a mushroom turned a bowl Last Line: And leave releasing to the nightingale. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales; Shadows IN THE GREEN WOOD, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the green wood, by a green slope Last Line: My heart goes crying and soaring yet. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Forests; Green (color); Nightingales; Singing & Singers; Woods INVOCATION TO THE NIGHTINGALE, by MARY HAYS Poem Text First Line: Wand'ring o'er the dewy meadow Last Line: To avoid the coming rain. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales LOVE'S NIGHTINGALE, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though now 'tis neither may nor june Last Line: Shall sitt and sing. Variant Title(s): With Some Poems Sent To A Gentlewoman (2) Subject(s): Birds; Books; Nightingales; Reading LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 2, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From out of my tears all burning Last Line: The nightingale's tuneful song. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales; Tears MESSENGER NIGHTINGALE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nightingale, nightingale, / guest of my bower Last Line: Lilies to roses. Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Life; Lilies; Love; Nightingales; Roses MUSIC'S DUEL, by FAMIANUS STRADA Poem Text First Line: Now westward sol had spent the richest beams Last Line: (that liv'd so sweetly) dead, so sweet a grave! Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales MY LOYAL LOVE, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The nightingale's sighing / mid elder leaves Last Line: My loyal love! Subject(s): Birds; Love; Nightingales NEW SPRING: 26, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How the pinks are breathing fragrance Last Line: And the nightingales are singing. Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Nightingales; Roses; Spring NIGHTINGALE, by CHRISTIAN CARSTAIRS Poem Text First Line: O! Could my sweet plaint lull to rest Last Line: With the thorn at my breast. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales NIGHTINGALE, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the month the nightingale, clod-brown Last Line: Still sings the nightingale her soft melodious song Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales NIGHTINGALE, by GERALD JOSEPH GRIFFIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the mute nightingale in closest groves Variant Title(s): To The Blessed Virgin Mar Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales NIGHTINGALE, by SUH JUNG-JU Poem Source First Line: Tears glinting %when azaleas raindrop their petals Last Line: O my love who has gone alone so far away %beyond the rim of the sky! Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales NIGHTINGALE, by NOVICA TADIC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With a drop of oil in its beak Last Line: Into some impossible appearance Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales NIGHTINGALE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The speckled bird sings in the tree Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales NIGHTINGALE, by MARIA TESSELCHADE VISSCHER Poem Source First Line: Prize thou the nightingale Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales NIGHTINGALE AND CUCKOO, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O nightingale and cuckoo! It was meet Last Line: And autumn silence gathers in their stead. Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Nightingales NIGHTINGALE AND THE LARK, by JOSEPH ERNEST WHITNEY Poem Source First Line: When the fairies are all for their dances Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales NIGHTINGALE IN BADELUNDA, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the green midnight at the nightingale's northern limit Last Line: The raw resonant notes that whet nthe night sky's gleaming scythe Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales NIGHTINGALE LANE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down through the thicket, out of the hedges Last Line: The nightingale singeth under the moon! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Birds; Moon; Nightingales; Singing & Singers NIGHTINGALE THOU KNOWEST, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: When the sun is rising Last Line: God of life and love? Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales NIGHTINGALE UNHEARD, by WILLIAM BELL SCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Is that the much-desired, the wondrous wail Last Line: That fancy only is your philomel Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales NIGHTINGALE'S NEST, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up this green woodland-ride let's softly rove Last Line: Ao here we'll leave them, still unknown to wrong, %as the old woodland's legacy of song Subject(s): Birds; Birds' Nests; Nightingales NIGHTINGALE'S SERENADE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: A song in my heart pipes ever and ever Last Line: My own! My own! Subject(s): Birds; Love; Love - Loss Of; Nightingales; Solitude; Loneliness NIGHTINGALES, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful must be the mountains whence ye came Last Line: Welcome the dawn. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales NIGHTINGALES, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What spirit moves the quiring nightingales Last Line: That aim to fill the intervals of love! Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales NIGHTINGALES IN LINCOLNSHIRE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well I remember how the nightingale Last Line: The night-bird warbled for all ears but mine? Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales NO NIGHTINGALES, OR COMPENSATION; NIGHT OF 31ST OF MAY, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long time I waited for the nightingale Last Line: And tuneless night exchanged for choral morn. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales NOT ALL SWEET NIGHTINGALES, by LUIS DE GONGORA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They are not all sweet nightingales Last Line: Making music for her I love Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De Subject(s): Birds; Hearts; Love; Music And Musicians; Nightingales ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI Poem Text First Line: Hush! I hear the nightingale's pure notes Last Line: Dirge of life. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains Last Line: Fled is that music: -- do I wake or sleep? Subject(s): Adversity; Birds; Immortality; Life; Mortality; Nightingales ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such claims for %this little bugger Last Line: Big ass, walks by. %some nightingale! Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales ODE, FR. THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As it fell upon a day, / in the merry month of may Last Line: Faithfull friend, from flatt'ring foe. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Variant Title(s): To The Nightingale;philomel Subject(s): Birds; Despair; Nightingales ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 15. TO THE EVENING STAR, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To-night retir'd the queen of heaven Last Line: Till I forget my own. Variant Title(s): To The Evening Star Subject(s): Birds; Evening Star; Nightingales ON A LAKE, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet in the rushes Last Line: The life of the lake. Subject(s): Birds; Lakes; Nightingales; Water; Pools; Ponds ON A NIGHTINGALE IN APRIL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The yellow moon is a dancing phantom Last Line: O moon-white maid! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): April; Birds; Moon; Nightingales; Singing & Singers; Theocritus (310-250 B.c.) ON AN ANCIENT LANCE, HANGING IN AN ARMOURY, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once in the breezy coppice didst thou dance Last Line: And with his mouldered eyes again replace. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales; Past; Silence ON THE DEATH OF A NIGHTINGALE, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, solitary wood, and henceforth be Last Line: Shall flock about thee, and keep time with kisses. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales OUT FROM ITS FINE CAGE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Out from its fine cage flies the nightingale Last Line: Come back to my garden, oh, sweet nightingale Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Nightingales; Singing And Singers; Wings PAIN OR JOY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! That's the nightingale Last Line: Throbs in each throbbing vein? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds; Happiness; Nightingales; Pain; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery PHILOMEL, by JOHN MYERS O'HARA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Listen, love! Last Line: In rapture about us and o'er us. Subject(s): Birds; Love; Nightingales; Passion PHILOMELA, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! Ah, the nightingale Last Line: Eternal pain! Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Nightingales ROUNDELAY, by LUIS DE GONGORA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They are not only nightingales %they who sing in flowery dales Last Line: A greeting gay %to eyes aglow Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De Subject(s): Birds; Love; Nightingales; Singing And Singers RURAL RAPTURES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Tis sweet at dewy eve to rove Subject(s): Birds;nightingales;pigeons;singing & Singers SECOND ODE TO THE NIGHTINGALE, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blest be thy song, sweet nightingale Last Line: Shall mock despair, and blunt the shaft of pain. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales; Odes (as Poetic Form) SINGING LESSON, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A nightingale made a mistake Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales SOMETIME TODAY, OR YESTERDAY, by JAMES CERVANTES Poem Source Last Line: Of news from so long ago %amplified by hard surfaces Subject(s): Birds; News; Nightingales; Television SONG IN THREE PARTS, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The white broom flatt'ring her flowers in calm june weather Last Line: No more -- no more.' Subject(s): Birds; Echo (mythology); Life; Nightingales; Singing & Singers; Songs SONG TO A PHANTOM NIGHTINGALE, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, nightingale that lures my soul to slumber Last Line: The songster that to me you always seem Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales SONGS ON THE VOICES OF BIRDS; THE NIGHTINGALE AND UNSATISFIED HEART, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When in a may-day hush Last Line: Whose fate is still to yearn, and not be satisfied.' Subject(s): Birds; Echo (mythology); Hearts; Nightingales SONNET, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI Poem Text First Line: A poet wrote a song - a tender lay Last Line: She sang it through—it was the nightingale! Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales SONNET TO THE NIGHTINGALE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sad songstress of the night, no more I hear Last Line: No more responsive to the lay of love. Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Love; Nightingales; Silence; Sorrow; Sadness STRADA'S NIGHTINGALE, by VINCENT BOURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shepherd touched his reed; sweet philomel Last Line: And he may wish that he had never won. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales TEMA CON VARIAZONI: PRELUDE, by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went a roaming through the woods alone Last Line: And heard the nightingale that made her moan. Variant Title(s): The Nightingale Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales THE BIRDS: THE HOOPOE'S CALL TO HIS WIFE PROCNE, THE NIGHTINGALE, by ARISTOPHANES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear comrade, arise, from slumber awake Last Line: (a pipe-solo follows, representing the nightingale.) Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales THE CHINESE NIGHTINGALE; A SONG IN CHINESE TAPESTRIES, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How, how,' he said. 'friend chang,' I said Last Line: Said the chinese nightingale. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Birds; China; Nightingales; Tapestries THE FAIRY, THE ROSE, AND THE NIGHTINGALE; A FABLE, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A rose while yet 'twas early morn Last Line: So to revel in the golden ray. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Nightingales; Roses THE HAPPY NIGHTINGALE, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Melodious creature, happy in thy choice! Last Line: Compar'd to mine, thy happiness is most complete. Subject(s): Birds; Happiness; Nightingales; Joy; Delight THE LAGGARD SONG, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had no heart to write to thee in prose Last Line: O winter of my heart! O nightingale! Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Hearts; Love; Nightingales; Singing & Singers; Winter; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs THE LITTLE PRETTY NIGHTINGALE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "but yet, ye wot now whom I mean" Subject(s): Birds;love;nightingales THE NIGHTINGALE, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oft have I read in many a foreign tale, oh nightingale! Last Line: Of one sweet sigh. Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Nightingales; Singing & Singers THE NIGHTINGALE, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The nightingale, as soon as april bringeth Last Line: Thy thorn without, my thorn my heart invadeth. Variant Title(s): Philomela;sonnet: 4 Subject(s): Birds; Love; Nightingales THE NIGHTINGALE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lone warbler! Thy love-melting heart supplies Last Line: So kind and watchful is celestial love! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Birds; Love; Nightingales; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE NIGHTINGALE, by JOHN VANBRUGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a time, a nightingale Last Line: Would run away from her -- as I from you. Variant Title(s): Learned Women Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE NIGHTINGALE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like a clamorous flock of startled birds Last Line: The quivering tree and the weeping bird. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE GLOW-WORM, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A nightingale, that all day long Last Line: Of him that creeps and him that flies. Subject(s): Birds; Fireflies; Nightingales; Glowworms THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE ORGAN; FROM YRIARTE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A nightingale who chanced to hear Last Line: Instruction from the humblest source Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales THE NIGHTINGALE IN BADELUNDA, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the green midnight at the nightingale's northern limit Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales THE NIGHTINGALE IN THE STUDY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come forth!' my catbird calls to me Last Line: "to nature's self her better glory." Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales THE NIGHTINGALE NEAR THE HOUSE, by HAROLD MONRO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here is the soundless cypress on the lawn Last Line: Then breaks, and it is dawn. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales THE NIGHTINGALE THAT WAS DROWNED, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a bough, hung trembling o'er a spring Last Line: Nymphs, take my life, since you despise my song.' Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales THE NIGHTINGALE [AND THE STOCK-DOVE], by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O nightingale! Thou surely art Last Line: That was the song -- the song for me! Variant Title(s): "o Nightingale! Thou Surely Art""; Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales THE NIGHTINGALE'S DEATH-SONG, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mournfully, sing mournfully Last Line: With summer I depart! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals; Nightingales THE NIGHTINGALE; A CONVERSATION POEM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No cloud, no relique of the sunken day Last Line: Sweet nightingale! Once more, my friends! Farewell. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales THE NIGHTINGALE; CHILD'S EVENING HYMN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When twilight's grey and pensive hour Last Line: Smile on thy servant's bed of rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales THE NOTIONAL NIGHTINGALE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: King hubert, he went to the forest in state Last Line: But somehow, no nightingale answered the call. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales THE OWL AND THE NIGHTINGALE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In summertide it so befell / I found me in a hidden dell Last Line: "that can I you in no wise tell, / I know no more of what befell" Subject(s): Birds;nightingales;owls THE OWL AND THE NIGHTINGALE, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To know the mistress' humour right Last Line: An owl is scorn'd alike by both.' Subject(s): Birds; Fables; Housewives; Nightingales; Owls; Women; Allegories THE SEARCH FOR THE NIGHTINGALE (TO S.S.), by WALTER JAMES REDFERN TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside a stony, shallow stream I sat Last Line: Leaving bright treasure on this calm air blown. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales THE SECRET OF THE NIGHTINGALE, by RODEN BERKELEY WRIOTHESLEY NOEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ground I walk'd on felt like air Last Line: The holy lore of the nightingale! Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales THE SICK MAN AND THE NIGHTINGALE, by AMY LEVY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So late, and yet a nightingale? Last Line: To me one greeting more ? Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales THE SOLITARY ROSE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O happy rose, red rose, that bloomest lonely Last Line: O happy rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Flowers; Night; Nightingales; Roses; Bedtime THE SONG OF THE NIGHTINGALE IS LIKE THE SCENT OF SYRINGA, by MINA LOY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs. Subject(s): Nightingales; Singing & Singers; Songs THE SONGSTERS, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing, nightingale! There still be those who take Last Line: Still tolerated bird! Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales THE THREE MAIDENS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were three maidens met on the highway Last Line: O the nightingale is dying for its mate. Subject(s): Birds; Household Employees; Night; Nightingales; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Bedtime THE WAKEFUL NIGHTINGALE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "for love that makes him wakeful, makes him sing" Subject(s): Birds;cupid;love - Complaints;nightingales; Eros THE WOLF, THE HORNET, AND THE NIGHTINGALE, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ Poem Text First Line: A wolf, a hornet, and a nightingale Last Line: Slaying the rapturous song-bird on the wing! Subject(s): Birds; Hearts; Hornets; Nightingales; Thought; Wolves; Thinking THE WOODMAN AND THE NIGHTINGALE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woodman whose rough heart was out of tune Last Line: And vex the nightingales in every dell. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales THREE SEVERAL BIRDS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The romancer's a nightingale Last Line: And only dreams for him!) Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birds; Books; Nightingales; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Reading TO A MOCKING-BIRD: FROM TAORMINA, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The nightingale has a golden heart Last Line: With the free, proud heart of a man. Subject(s): Birds; Life; Love; Mockingbirds; Nightingales; Tears TO A NIGHTINGALE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O nightingale! How hast thou learnt Last Line: Round whom the future sings! Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Nightingales TO A NIGHTINGALE, by ELINOR SWEETMAN Poem Text First Line: Minstrel unseen, who singest to the skies Last Line: Among the silver lilies of the stars. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales TO A NIGHTINGALE HEARD UPON A HILLTOP BEFORE DAWN, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, nightingale, I lie awake Last Line: Floats out to all the land! Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales TO A NIGHTINGALE ON ITS RETURN, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And art thou here again, sweet nightingale Last Line: A music chamber for my soul and thee! Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales TO THE NIGHTINGALE, by PEDRO DE CASTRO Y ANAYA Poem Source First Line: Bird of the joyous season! Last Line: For which I linger here Subject(s): Birds; Love; Nightingales; Spring TO THE NIGHTINGALE, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why, little charmer of the air Last Line: I ask but silence whilst I die. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales TO THE NIGHTINGALE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sister of love-lorn poets, philomel Last Line: She thrills me with the husband's promised name! Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales; Poetry & Poets TO THE NIGHTINGALE, by ANNE FINCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Exert thy voice, sweet harbinger of spring Last Line: Or censure what we cannot reach. Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of Variant Title(s): The Poet To The Nightingale Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales; Poetry & Poets TO THE NIGHTINGALE, by FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How passing sad! Listen, it sings again Last Line: And fill'd my weary eyes with the soul's rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Butler, Frances Anne; Kemble, Fanny Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales TO THE NIGHTINGALE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gale of the night our fathers call'd thee, bird! Last Line: From the far tomb his voice shall silence mine. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales TO THE NIGHTINGALE, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Last Line: Both them I serve, and of their train am I. Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 1;o Nightingale! Subject(s): Birds; Love; Nightingales TO THE NIGHTINGALE, by ANN RADCLIFFE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her lengthen'd shade. When ev'ning flings Last Line: To taste, to fancy, and to virtue, dear! Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Ann Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales TO THE NIGHTINGALE, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O nightingale, best poet of the grove Last Line: O mourn with me, sweet bird, my hapless flame. Variant Title(s): Song Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales TO THE NIGHTINGALE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O honey-throated warbler of the grove? Last Line: That sorrow is a part of what they mean! Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales TO THE NIGHTINGALE (2), by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear quirister [chorister], who from those shadows sends Last Line: With trembling wings sobbed forth, I love, I love. Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William Variant Title(s): Sonnet To The Nightingale;sonnet Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales TO THE NIGHTINGALE WHICH THE AUTHOR HEARD ON NEW YEAR'S DAY, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whence is it, that amazed I hear Last Line: And every season spring. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales WASTED HOURS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many buds in this warm light Last Line: The nightingale and moon. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales; Time WING, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Madrid, 1934 / until a shepherd boy from orihuela Last Line: Had not heard a nightingale Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales; Wings; Women WING, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Madrid, 1934 %until a shepherd boy from orihuela Last Line: Had not heard a nightingale Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales; Wings; Women |
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