| 单词 | nightingale |
| 例句 | He was a pale, thin man in early middle age; his name was Teukros Basilides, and his dæmon was a nightingale. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He told everyone about the songs of canaries, the diet of kestrels, and the extraordinary migration patterns of nightingales. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “But that bird at granddad’s hospice. You said it was a nightingale.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The hour of the owl, the hour of the wolf, the hour of the nightingale, moonrise and moonset, dusk and dawn, they staggered past like drunkards. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The nightingale’s song was then the only voice of the hour: in listening to it, I again wept. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z But now here she was crying and warbling like an Italian nightingale! The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z That piano had once belonged to Pacheco’s wife, who could play it like a nightingale can sing. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z His limbs they gathered and placed in a tomb at the foot of Mount Olympus, and there to this day the nightingales sing more sweetly than anywhere else. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Pan made the pipe of reeds which can sing as sweetly as the nightingale in spring. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z And out of the darkest recess among the trees there came a sound Shasta had never heard before—a nightingale. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z “The bird said...It doesn’t make a lot of sense. She said, ‘The nightingale makes them bleed, makes them pay.’ Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z “Perhaps your elephants would sooner be nightingales. Instead of sweet song, Meereen’s nights would be filled with thunderous trumpetings, and your trees would shatter beneath the weight of great grey birds.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The word “nightingale” kaboomed in my skull but it just wouldn't come out. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z As the nightingales fell silent, the river larks took up their song. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He was Cain, Ulysses, the Flying Dutchman; he was Lot in Sodom, Deirdre of the Sorrows, Sweeney in the nightingales among trees. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The summer nightfall was unbroken by owls and so quiet that they could plainly hear the intermittent, monotonous “Chug chug chug” of a nightingale in the distant woods. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A robin, I saw, a woodpecker, a magpie, a blackbird, and far off I think I heard a nightingale, though I’m not sure you get them in January. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Somewhere near, a passing bell was tolling; the dogs all round the neighbourhood were howling; and in our shrubbery, seemingly just outside, a nightingale was singing. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “Do you get”—Hangman loves giving me grief over this word—“nightingales in January, Dad? I might’ve heard one this morning. In the woods.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The roses were in bloom, two nightingales soliloquized in the boskage, a cuckoo was just going out of tune among the lime trees. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I hear a nightingale warbling in a wood half a mile off; no moving form is visible, no coming step audible; but that perfume increases: I must flee. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z He laid Lyra on the enormous palm, and she gazed up at the giant with perfect confidence, and Pantalaimon sang like a nightingale. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The nightingale has twenty-four basic songs, but gains wild variety by varying the internal arrangement of phrases and the length of pauses. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “First I thought of my favorite story, the one about the nightingale. Maybe you know it?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Upon his pipes of reed he played melodies as sweet as the nightingale’s song. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “Billy, my Billy, gave it to me soon after we met. Said it was a nightingale, like me. We then put it into the story.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Serafina turned to the nightingale and said, “What is your name?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Then we heard someone whistling—beautiful like the Emperor’s nightingale—and when we turned around there was Ruthie. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Somewhere in the garden a nightingale was singing, and a little breeze touched her hair and stirred the leaves overhead. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Very soon the moon shone and the nightingale sang over two horses and two human children, all fast asleep. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z “From your lips,” he said, “even a shriek would be the very call of the nightingale.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The Roman writers who told the story somehow got the sisters confused and said that the tongueless Philomela was the nightingale, which was obviously absurd. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z If I found a nest of nightingale eggs or chicks, I was not to disturb it or the mother would abandon her roost and the chicks would die. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “Jane, do you hear that nightingale singing in the wood? Listen!” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Malcolm wandered about the grass, looking at the little trees with glowing blossoms and listening to the birds that flew and sang in the branches as prettily as nightingales. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Strange bird sounds answer me: ca-caw of crows, whoop of owls, knocking woodpeckers, and a whistling nightingale. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z It is not really about the countryside at all; nature is there purely as a metaphor for feelings, as it was for Wordsworth and his daffodils, Shelley with his skylark and Keats with his nightingale. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z If nightingales listened to Sinatra, they would sound like that, and the sequence allows Eastwood to put the overwhelming question: How do you make trouble and music at the same time? Anthony Lane: “Jersey Boys” and “Venus in Fur” Reviews 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z Face masks made of nightingale faeces, used by elite Japanese women for centuries, are one of the stranger beautifying techniques currently resurgent in western salons. A poo facial mask – smaller pores, yes, but do you really want faeces on your face? 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Britain today has 90% fewer nightingales than it did just 40 years ago. The Sea Inside by Philip Hoare – review 2013-05-30T06:30:01Z Written from his native Gaza, Abu Toha’s accomplished debut contrasts scenes of political violence with natural beauty: In one poem, a “nightingale departs the wet earth” two stanzas before the “sound of a drone / intrudes.” Newly Published Poetry, From Gaza to Zoom Rooms and More 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z But when envoys from the emperor of Japan arrive with a bejeweled mechanical nightingale as a present, the real nightingale, now overlooked, returns to the forest. Music Review: Stravinsky?s Tales, Dunked in the Spin Cycle 2011-03-02T22:59:11Z But the forgiving nightingale returns, death is placated by the bird’s rapturous song, and the emperor is reprieved. Music Review: Stravinsky?s Tales, Dunked in the Spin Cycle 2011-03-02T22:59:11Z He didn't need the samples of nightingales, swifts and other singers, but this is an impressively brave and original set. Sam Lee: Ground of Its Own – review 2012-06-28T21:00:01Z And of course, the real nightingale doesn't need golden feathers. Cornelia Funke's top 10 fairytales 2011-07-06T11:38:18Z So cellist Oliver Coates will play some of the composer's solo cello work live during the performance – at the dawn chorus section, when we hear a nightingale. The echoes of Benjamin Britten's 'composing walks' 2013-01-30T19:00:10Z A friend of Ravel's once described this small, dapper man, whose favourite possession was a mechanical nightingale in a gilded cage, as both a child and an old man. L'heure espagnole/L'enfant et les sortilèges; BBC Prom 33 – review 2012-08-11T23:05:35Z “It still had no name, the nature of their long association, their fifteen years — a lifetime! — of trips and plans and nightingales and cautious public affections. Maybe it never would. Maybe they invented it.” Review | The tortured love life of Tennessee Williams, as seen through a novelist’s eye 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z In Germany, the nightingale, that most melodious nocturnal wonder, was traded by the quart like a commodity. Review | Dig into these gorgeous books for gardening inspiration 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z The 7,400-square-foot restaurant, with its arched windows and tiled columns, felt liberating — attributable not only to the mildly inebriated people, but also to the origami-esque nightingales ascending toward the ceiling. From Italian-Asian to Locavore Canadian: Food Adventures in Vancouver 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z When the two nightingales return to the stage, we view them differently: the one needs the perfection of the other. Dance Review: Mark Morris Dance Group at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-06T22:07:00Z Female nightingales migrate at night, and the males sing to call them down out of the sky. The echoes of Benjamin Britten's 'composing walks' 2013-01-30T19:00:10Z So we find a different version a century later, with a text in Latin that is much more subdued, saying, 'oh, spring is here and the thrush captures our hearts and the nightingale sings.' Medieval Women's Choir sings of spring 2011-05-19T19:59:09Z What would a nightingale do if you put her in a cage? Marzieh obituary 2010-10-19T17:18:00Z Do nightingales shoot magic out of their cloacas? A poo facial mask – smaller pores, yes, but do you really want faeces on your face? 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Last year, for the 90th anniversary of the BBC, I was asked to make a radio piece about the famous recording of cellist Beatrice Harrison playing in a garden accompanied by a nightingale. The echoes of Benjamin Britten's 'composing walks' 2013-01-30T19:00:10Z When she mentions nightingales, she sings like one, in an ornate phrase that rises to an airy high B flat, as if showing off her character’s prima donna technique. The Best Opera Recording Ever Is Maria Callas Singing ‘Tosca.’ Hear Why. 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z I didn't wonder why I loved that tale about the mechanical and the true nightingale so much. Cornelia Funke's top 10 fairytales 2011-07-06T11:38:18Z Extinction is also on Mark Avery's mind – the imminent disappearance of such familiar British birds as the skylark, nightingale and cuckoo, following decades of mismanagement of the British countryside. Christmas gifts 2012: the best wildlife books 2012-11-30T22:55:02Z Ms. Duval, whom Poulenc called “the nightingale of my tears,” remains, in the opinion of many critics, the foremost interpreter of his work. Denise Duval, French Soprano and Foremost Poulenc Interpreter, Dies at 94 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z The right to broadcast the songs of 331 Welsh-language musicians and music publishers rests with Eos - the Welsh word for nightingale - from today. Hymns replace pop on Radio Cymru 2013-01-01T11:35:28Z Word of the nightingale’s singing has reached the emperor of China. Music Review: Stravinsky?s Tales, Dunked in the Spin Cycle 2011-03-02T22:59:11Z The song of a nightingale – Britten's favourite bird – was joined by a live performance by Oliver Coates of the Ciaconna from Britten's Second cello suite, a clever choice given the warblings of the middle section. In Britten's Footsteps – review 2013-02-04T18:51:22Z Did the nightingales of Berkeley Square know about this? A poo facial mask – smaller pores, yes, but do you really want faeces on your face? 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Haiku poet: “A nightingale falls/ The wind empty in its wings/ Girl, you’re a brick house.” Style Invitational Week 1371: The Tile Invitational VII 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z In all the works the creatures — nightingales, turtles, toads and sheep — tended toward the anthropomorphic, sometimes cutely and sometimes eerily. Music Review: Music to Echo Nature?s Sounds and Voices 2011-05-29T21:22:13Z “The nightingales busted their larynx!” he wrote to the poet Oliver Evans of a dalliance with a Neapolitan professional lightweight boxer he picked up on one of his first nights in Rome. The Roman Seasons of Tennessee Williams 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z There's a nice, humorous little tribute to Welsh poets in stanza three: they sing like wingless, ie human, nightingales. Poem of the week: Words by Edward Thomas 2013-02-25T10:51:18Z More than possibility: the bird that symbolizes Allegro thought, the lark, finds its counterpart in the Penseroso nightingale. Dance Review: Mark Morris Dance Group at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-06T22:07:00Z To clarify, “no fun” translates as “bird poo”, while “uguisu” is the species name of the Japanese bush warbler, somewhat different from a nightingale. A poo facial mask – smaller pores, yes, but do you really want faeces on your face? 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z The nightingale gives its lifeblood to create a perfect red rose. Review | A reading list just right for Christmas 2020: A little Dickens, a little Wilde, a little Donald Duck 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z They’re highly empathetic and encouraging; they trill as prettily as nightingales and they all play, quite dexterously, their own musical instruments. ‘Allegro,’ a Rarely Staged Rodgers and Hammerstein Musical 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z The title comes from the recommended diet for a caged nightingale to induce it to sing. Review | Dig into these gorgeous books for gardening inspiration 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z Yet rather than documenting works-in-progress, or literary musings, the diaries dwell on William's most intimate worries and encounters, with a raw emphasis on the sexual, flagged by the term "the nightingales sang". The strange allure of Tennessee Williams's Notebooks 2011-03-25T11:20:11Z I've been where the poplar is springing From the fair Inamelled ground Where the nightingale is singing With a solemn plaintive sound. Charlotte Brontë poem manuscript sells for £92,000 2013-04-10T14:46:28Z "On the old railway path near Britten's Red House I recorded one of the most remarkable songs I've ever recorded - the solo song of a nightingale which was also Britten's favourite bird," he said. Wildlife man records for Britten 2013-02-01T14:49:00Z It would be a mistake, however, to associate her only with tragic bel canto heroines or with that delicious blend of tomboy and nightingale, Marie, in La Fille du Régiment. Dame Joan Sutherland obituary 2010-10-11T17:56:00Z And there's love, for her family and particularly her father, who can converse with nightingales on the violin. The Little House books as feminist classics 2012-12-28T22:55:10Z In the trial scene in “King Lear,” Edgar/Tom protests the Fool’s own nonsense, saying, “The foul fiend haunts poor Tom in the voice of a nightingale.” The Fraught Friendship of T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Yet when she rasps out the anthem “Before the Parade Passes By,” you hear her voice as that of a nightingale. Review: ‘Hello, Dolly!’ Is Bright, Brassy and All Bette 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Knepp boasts the largest population in Britain of the Purple Emperor butterfly; nightingales, after years of decline, are nesting there in rising numbers. Returned to the wild: A 3,500-acre estate outside London is ruled by nature 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z Sarah Tynan, the only originally scheduled soloist, was agile in the curlicues of coloratura that illustrate the dove cooing to his mate and, in the words of the libretto, “the nightingale’s delightful notes.” Review: Haydn’s ‘Creation’: The Birth of All, With High Hopes at Mostly Mozart 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z The two nightingales, though removed from each other, dance a question-and-answer duet that corresponds to the dialogue Handel composes here for soprano and flute. Dance Review: Mark Morris Dance Group at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-06T22:07:00Z The fisherman has come to a spot in the forest where every evening he is entranced by the singing of the nightingale. Music Review: Stravinsky?s Tales, Dunked in the Spin Cycle 2011-03-02T22:59:11Z Shizuka New York Day Spa in Manhattan offers a Geisha Facial, an hour-long treatment that involves applying nightingale bird droppings in powder form to the skin. Bird droppings, bull testicles among pre-Oscar beauty treatments 2013-02-17T14:26:22Z Jeff Rawle brings huge hangdog appeal to the part of a wiseacre, dispensing wisdom on the seafront; he doesn't bring the vocal chords of a nightingale. Ditch; Marine Parade 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z Often the choreography is remarkably pictorial: we see meadows, hills, a lark, a nightingale, a hunt, a shepherd shocking girls with his tales — a delectable wealth of recognizable incident. Mark Morris’s Transcendent ‘Il Allegro,’ Captured on Film for PBS 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Many birds decline — the parrot feels too safe in its cage, the falcon does not want to leave its master, the nightingale will not leave its love. 'The Conference of the Birds': reviving a 12th-century Persian epic 2011-11-16T22:53:03Z A delicate, small nightingale puppet on a long pole is manipulated by an unseen puppeteer. Music Review: Stravinsky?s Tales, Dunked in the Spin Cycle 2011-03-02T22:59:11Z No less affecting, these settings acknowledge that devotion isn't always accompanied by constant appeals to moonlight, nightingales, beating hearts and trembling lips. Porgy and Bess; the Prince Consort; Live Music Sculpture – review 2012-07-14T23:06:10Z When she sang the great ballads “The Song Is You” and “Why Was I Born?,” the nightingale ascended. Music Review: Rebecca Luker at 54 Below 2013-05-19T21:58:01Z “The nightingale’s song is delightful because the nightingale herself gives it forth.” Belle and Sebastian's first fans connected online before the trolls arrived 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z Just as the familiar tune “In the Hall of the Mountain King” gradually builds speed “accelerando,” as the compositional notation is known, some birdsong does too, like that of the nightingale. It Rocks in the Tree Tops, but Is That Bird Making Music? 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z I wonder if even Janet Malcolm might have given a pass to this devoted biographer and his own bow to a nightingale. Review | The MacArthur ‘genius’ poet who got her first break at 58 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z "He knew the hardship of farmers in the 1920s and 30s but he knew it was also incredibly beautiful; there was an amazing wild profusion of yellowhammers, nightingales, linnets, that are a rare sight today." Suffolk nature writer Ronald Blythe dies aged 100 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z Grasshoppers, sand lizards, nightingales, and skylarks that are declining or threatened elsewhere have been found thriving in the city’s green spaces. Pioneering urban ecology finds surprising biodiversity in Berlin’s green spaces 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z Back in Istanbul, the scholar buys a “nightingale’s eye” bottle at the bazaar, from which a djinn emerges in her hotel room to grant her three wishes. Page-to-Screen: 'Three Thousand Years of Longing' Byatt minus the feminism (and genie sex) 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Widely referred to as a “national treasure” and the “nightingale of Bollywood,” Mangeshkar has recorded songs in more than 30 languages and lent her voice to over 1,000 films. Lata Mangeshkar, singer and Bollywood icon, dies at 92, sending India into national mourning 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z For decades, the "nightingale of Bollywood" was the country's most in-demand singer, with every top actress wanting her to sing their songs. Obituary: Lata Mangeshkar, 'nightingale of Bollywood' dies at 92 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z Yet prior to the new study, only humans and thrush nightingales have been observed singing songs that have a rhythmical structure—that is, containing features such as a “categorical rhythm.” We got the beat: Lemurs show vocal musical rhythm, a rarity in animal kingdom 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z The trust expects nightingales and turtle doves to be among the beneficiaries of the bison’s “ecosystem engineering”. Wild bison to return to UK for first time in 6,000 years 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z The nightingale spends the winter in sub-Saharan Africa, with the small, brown creature clocking up huge distances during migration. Climate change clips the nightingale's wings 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z Animals have always come and gone, medieval wolves, later Keats’ nightingale, later still a rare wallaby, spotted bounding through the trees in spring 2019. The invisible city: how a homeless man built a life underground 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z The house sparrow, camel, skylark, nightingale and various deer species were among the animals that acclimatizers introduced. Victorian efforts to export animals to new worlds failed, mostly 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z The book has the line “for the first time ever, a nightingale sang in Berkeley Square.” Neil Gaiman had one rule for the Good Omens adaptation 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Among those most at risk are corncrakes, turtle doves, cuckoos, skylarks and nightingales. RSPB releases birdsong charity track 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z At the heart of the nightingale effort is Sarah Darwin, a Berlin-based botanist who just happens to be the great-great-granddaughter of Charles Darwin. Why nightingales are snubbing Berkeley Square for the Tiergarten 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z There’s exotic sounds like hippos and hyenas, to stuff like nightingales and robins and the sound of the geyser in Iceland and Hurricane Harvey as it passed overhead in Texas. This map lets you hear what the world sounds like without humans 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z Aficionados of British birds, for example, released nightingales and skylarks into American parks, but they disappeared without making any impact on the indigenous fauna. Victorian efforts to export animals to new worlds failed, mostly 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z That was mine because I liked that idea that, for once, a nightingale actually did sing in Berkeley Square. Neil Gaiman had one rule for the Good Omens adaptation 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Ornithologists kept finding that birds that rely on insects for food were in trouble: eight in 10 partridges gone from French farmlands; 50 and 80 percent drops, respectively, for nightingales and turtledoves. The Insect Apocalypse Is Here 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z Another well-known nightingale is found every spring perched atop the same traffic light in the Alt-Treptow district. Why nightingales are snubbing Berkeley Square for the Tiergarten 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z From nightingales trilling in ancient Rome’s suburbs to the migrating cranes minutely observed by Aristotle in his fourth-century-bc History of Animals, birds pervaded early Mediterranean civilizations. Thinking like a mountain, how we really make decisions, and the power of a button: Books in brief 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z Yet for every species that increased beyond the wildest anticipations of the acclimatizers, there were more that, like the skylark and the nightingale, vanished without a trace. Victorian efforts to export animals to new worlds failed, mostly 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z But Ovid swapped them in the tale, So that the sister who was forced Becomes instead the nightingale, Who sings as though her heart would burst. “Swallows” 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z Tell us about the success of the nightingales. When Nature Runs Wild, the Results Can Be Spectacular 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z What if Berlin’s nightingales, far from being put off by the endless noise of the city, are in fact attracted to it? Why nightingales are snubbing Berkeley Square for the Tiergarten 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z Ruminating on the sweetness of an unthinking nightingale’s song, he catalogued just few of the disappointments of human consciousness: Opinion | Our culture assumes happiness is the normal human condition. Why? 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Barnum as a touring parlor for the “Swedish nightingale,” Jenny Lind, and soon these were de rigueur among robber barons like Leland Stanford, George Gould and Charles Schwab. Selling Airborne Opulence to the Upper Upper Upper Class 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z The essentials: Eternally family-friendly, Hans Christian Andersen’s tale eavesdrops on an emperor who is enthralled by a nightingale’s singing until he’s given a mechanical, bejeweled bird and loses perspective on what’s truly precious. The 99-Seat Beat: Orson Bean and Alley Mills get lovey-dovey, Harold Pinter gets institutionalized 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z We’ve seen an emergence of thorny scrub and the nightingale just loves that! When Nature Runs Wild, the Results Can Be Spectacular 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z Scientists are more guarded about the idea that Berlin’s nightingales may be drawn to urban hubbub. Why nightingales are snubbing Berkeley Square for the Tiergarten 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z The extra land, next to Lackford village, includes a wetland habitat for nightingales and adjoins similar fields purchased by the trust in 2005. Suffolk Wildlife Trust launches Lackford Lakes appeal - BBC News 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z The air is alive with birdsong rarely heard in Britain today – spectacular bursts of nightingale and the purring of turtle doves. 'It is strange to see the British struggling with the beaver': why is rewilding so controversial? 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z Muntjac deer have eaten the undergrowth where nightingales once nested in the forests near my home, and now those birds have gone. What Animals Taught Me About Being Human 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z We’re now one of the densest areas for nightingales in the whole of the U.K. When Nature Runs Wild, the Results Can Be Spectacular 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z “It’s true that nightingales get louder if the noise around them is louder,” said Voigt-Heucke. Why nightingales are snubbing Berkeley Square for the Tiergarten 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z The researchers also tracked two smaller migratory species traveling from Denmark to sub-Saharan Africa: thrush nightingales and red-backed shrikes. On Long Migrations, Birds Chase an Eternal Spring 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z On stage, Cohen called himself “a broken-down nightingale” who had sold his poetry for celebrity. Leonard Cohen – he knew things about life, and if you listened you could learn 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z What to my human eye is a place of natural beauty is, for a nightingale, something like a desert. What Animals Taught Me About Being Human 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z The programming began on Sunday's International Dawn Chorus Day, as cuckoos, nightingales and garden warbler were featured on the weekend breakfast show. Birdsong broadcasts and nightingale 'duets' come to BBC Radio 3 - BBC News 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z “I was surprised when I first listened consciously to a nightingale”, she told German website RiffReporter. Why nightingales are snubbing Berkeley Square for the Tiergarten 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z People later report “strange occurrences on that same winter evening; dogs barking crazily, as if there was thunder, and the sound of the nightingale.” Edna O’Brien’s Charming War Criminal 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z The playwright has freely reimagined the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, in which a great Chinese emperor learns to be humble and grateful toward the nightingale that sings so beautifully in his garden. A spring season of theater takes young audiences from China to the Land of Oz 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Fingers crossed - though if growth in the rest of the world continues to decelerate, and consumption in the UK does not, this nightingale will not be ushering in spring. Perhaps austerity didn't choke off UK recovery - BBC News 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z On one occasion he sang a duet with a nightingale which is said to have lasted all night. Saint Francis of Assisi Inspired the Pope—and Me 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z “The nightingale works with the expectations of his audience, so that he gets as much attention as possible.” Why nightingales are snubbing Berkeley Square for the Tiergarten 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z “People would give me a specific breed, like a Newfoundland dog or a nightingale bird,” she said. Why are random animal sculptures hanging from light posts in Southeast? 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z And for nightingales, it’s the most elaborate song that apparently wins the day. Best Male Nightingale Vocalists Make Best Fathers 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z Around 80 pairs of nightingales breed here each summer, in just the spot where there are plans for 5000 new houses. Rochester by-election: Rice, birds and immigration 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z On one occasion he sang a duet with a nightingale which is said to have lasted all night. Saint Francis of Assisi Inspired the Pope—and Me 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z A wide range of creatures, from killer whales to nightingales, demonstrate the Lombard effect—and, according to a recent paper in Behavioral Ecology, some fish do, too. When Fish Shout 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z Plans to build up to 5,000 homes on a site that is said to be key to the UK's nightingale population have been condemned by environmental campaigners. Homes plan 'threatens nightingales' 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z “A poet. Sang like a nightingale. Had aspirations of being an actress on Broadway.” Memories of Barrow Gang still fresh after 80 years 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z His writing about the invasion of Afghanistan earned him the nickname “nightingale of the General Staff.” Foes of America in Russia Crave Rupture in Ties 2014-03-15T15:58:51Z But there are only 500 beds in this sleepy town, where tens of thousands once slept in tents, listening to the nightingales, preparing for battle. Searching for the sultan's heart 2013-09-01T23:10:24Z Photograph: Andrew Fox for the Observer When the New York Philharmonic needed cuckoo and nightingale sounds for a performance of Haydn's Toy Symphony, it was a whistle factory in Birmingham that took the call. UK exporters whistle up success in a thriving new market: America 2013-05-18T23:06:11Z Developers Land Securities say the area's 84 pairs of nightingales would be re-homed nearby. Homes plan 'threatens nightingales' 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Keats and Coleridge once walked here, both enthralled by the birdsong of nightingales. Hampstead Heath protests over mansions of the megarich 2013-04-13T23:04:30Z The nightingale's song has been feted by, but its numbers in the UK have crashed by 90% in the past 40 years. Row over £1bn development plan on nightingale habitat site in Kent 2013-03-29T18:35:40Z Nightingales don't sing unless they hear another nightingale singing. Insight: Silent or supportive, conservatives give gay marriage momentum 2013-03-25T08:57:03Z And when the nightingale sings his nightly song, he really is praising the quality of his sperm. Book review: Survival of the Beautiful 2012-10-28T20:17:04.137Z The study, published in this month’s issue of Animal Behavior, shows that the resemblance between a nightingale wren's song and music is nothing more than a coincidence. Birdsong Not Music, After All 2012-08-15T22:50:40Z That was how the people and the nightingale envisaged it; and no mystic will be the less wise for pondering that brutal last line, the eternal revolt of common sense against asceticism. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z Sadly, the nightingale is a bird that more people know about than ever will hear, because of its catastrophic decline. Row over £1bn development plan on nightingale habitat site in Kent 2013-03-29T18:35:40Z She could not see them, but their gurgles in the darkness were like a song of nightingales to Sylvia. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z Here goes!—The moon Shone sad o'er the silvered waves, The nightingale trilled 'neath that night of June, Where the river the primrose laves. Punch, or the London Charivari, December 2, 1893 2012-04-23T02:00:33.287Z But the study has convinced him that nightingale wrens do not follow Western musical scales. Birdsong Not Music, After All 2012-08-15T22:50:40Z There also are many birds, throstle, thrush and nightingale, goldfinch and woodlark, which sing merrily day and night. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z The nightingale has flown into a cabinet-level row over a proposed £1bn housing development which threatens the bird’s most important UK site. Row over £1bn development plan on nightingale habitat site in Kent 2013-03-29T18:35:40Z He had intended to practise much on his guitar this spring, and he had looked forward to hearing the nightingales with her; they would be singing next month in the lemon-groves. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z It was the nightingale and not the lark that pierced the fearful hollow of my ear... Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z To give birds a fair shot, he tested a species known for the beauty of its song: the nightingale wren, which resides in forests between northern Costa Rica and southern Mexico. Birdsong Not Music, After All 2012-08-15T22:50:40Z A nightingale began to sing near the river bank, and the sweetness of the melodious voice ran through me like a delicious and burning poison. Annouchka A Tale 2012-04-13T02:00:19.120Z The row intensified this month when Natural England, the government's statutory wildlife adviser, declared Lodge Hill's nightingales and wild flowers to be a site of special scientific interest, raising the barrier to development even higher. Row over £1bn development plan on nightingale habitat site in Kent 2013-03-29T18:35:40Z The nightingales, the bells, the guitar, and passionate voice strike up. Mortal Coils 2012-04-06T02:00:30.740Z It is said that he contracted his mortal sickness by being tempted to remain exposed too long to the night air, captivated by the sweet notes of a nightingale. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z The owl that, far away towards the Great House, hooted dolefully above the woods--no nightingale had been more tuneful. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z I passed a thicket where a nightingale was singing. Annouchka A Tale 2012-04-13T02:00:19.120Z A duet between the cellist Beatrice Harrison and the nightingales in her Surrey back garden was a pioneering BBC live outside broadcast in 1924. Row over £1bn development plan on nightingale habitat site in Kent 2013-03-29T18:35:40Z All is now silent, save for the nightingales and the distant bells. Mortal Coils 2012-04-06T02:00:30.740Z I love his hymn to the nightingale, and many other of his 'Harmonies' but they are far from having the effect on me that his 'Meditations' used to have. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z If I were a nightingale, I would discharge the office of a nightingale; if a swan, that of a swan. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z Koppitz led his great orchestra the day before he died, and here some of the sweetest voices have been heard emulating the notes of the nightingale. The Story of the Great Fire in St. John, N.B., June 20th, 1877 2012-03-27T02:00:21.067Z Spain cannot show many such beautiful northern parks, with a growth of ivy and a shimmer of arrow-headed leaves under the elm trees where nightingales sing in season. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z And there's the nightingale beginning to sing in earnest! Mortal Coils 2012-04-06T02:00:30.740Z To-morrow he will go to the desert with another nightingale piping at his elbow. Six One-Act Plays 2012-03-26T02:00:36.910Z Birds of passage include the buzzard, kite, quail, wild fowl of various kinds, golden thrush, wagtail, linnet, finch and nightingale. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z And hither we went to listen to the sweet clamour of the nightingales while eating the fruit we had plucked. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z In the bedrooms of the cottager, the artisan, and the small tradesman, the infant at its mother's side too often awoke, like Milton's nightingale, "darkling"—but that "nocturnal note" was something different from "harmonious numbers." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z It is wearisome, spite of green leaves and nightingales. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z Come as owl, nightingale, or what you please, so long as you come. Dorothy and other Italian Stories 2012-03-18T02:00:18.513Z His glees, “By Celia’s arbour,” “O nightingale,” “Now the storm begins to lower,” and others, are amongst the finest specimens of this peculiarly English class of compositions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z Take us for family, And play with us, As stoops the nightingale Unto the sea, Teasing its waves To ecstasy. The Dramas of Victor Hugo: Mary Tudor, Marion de Lorme, Esmeralda 2012-03-15T02:00:28.817Z At once a nightingale began to sing, In oriental calm the garden lay,— Panic and war postponed another day. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z Your love awoke in the shadows of rose-bushes, mine amidst the flashing of swords; you love sweet songs, and the voice of the nightingale, I love the sound of the trumpet. The Slaves of the Padishah 2012-03-06T03:00:24.060Z It was not given them to tell the soul, And lure the nightingale by fragrant breath: These slender stems and roots brook no control, And in the garden life would find but death. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z O nightingale! sweet bird—they say, That peace abides with thee; But thou hast brought from day to day A triple woe to me. Servian Popular Poetry 2012-03-03T03:00:19.423Z I keep the worst of our two birds of prey— The owl remains; the nightingale flew away! The Dramas of Victor Hugo: Mary Tudor, Marion de Lorme, Esmeralda 2012-03-15T02:00:28.817Z But can anyone sleep through the mad row these nightingales are making? Roumanian Stories Translated from the Original Roumanian 2012-02-28T03:00:27.310Z Among the birds are the vulture, eagle, falcon, buzzard, kite, lark, nightingale, heron, stork and bustard. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z I saw the juggler afterwards at Ole Bull's concert, and he moved not a muscle while the nightingale was pouring forth its sweetest descant. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z The nightingales continue silent—there is a silence of death—it must be a stranger frightening them, says the grandfather. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z I shed no tears as we left Quebec far behind, and glided on under a cloudless, moonlit sky, serenaded by those Canadian nightingales, the frogs. Pictures of Canadian Life A Record of Actual Experiences 2012-02-14T03:00:28.520Z Do you hear the nightingales, how charming they are? Roumanian Stories Translated from the Original Roumanian 2012-02-28T03:00:27.310Z In the night the fiery nightingales Shall clash and trill through the silence: Like the voices of mermaids crying From the sea. Goblins and Pagodas 2012-02-14T03:00:24.740Z At that moment a late nightingale began to sing, as if to wish all joy and good fortune to the lovers. Tales From the 'Phantasus', etc. of Ludwig Tieck 2012-02-13T03:00:19.620Z The grandfather remarks that he can no longer hear the nightingales, and the daughter is afraid someone has entered the garden. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z So shall the nightingale rejoice thy woods, And Hesper early light his dewy star; And oft at eventide Beneath the rising moon. A Little Book of Old Time Verse Old Fashioned Flowers 2012-02-13T03:00:15.823Z Modern progress, except where it has exterminated them, has scarcely touched the habits of bird or animal; so almost up to the very houses of the metropolis the nightingale yearly returns to her old haunts. Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z The nightingale was pouring his first love-song to the silent dewy groves. The Monctons A Novel: Volume 2 (of 2) 2012-02-11T03:03:50.943Z Emilius spent the interval in composing the following verses: Spring-time, it is blithe and gay When the nightingale sits on the hawthorn-spray, And every leaf and every flower Quivers with joy at the music's power. Tales From the 'Phantasus', etc. of Ludwig Tieck 2012-02-13T03:00:19.620Z And what makes the nightingale sing until the air is faint with melody? The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:47.297Z They would object to the lark and nightingale because they do not sing by note—to the clouds because they are not square. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:43.960Z Others may praise the nightingale, if they please, and my own heart has often thrilled, to hear, at the "witching time of night," her wild and melancholy strain from some English copsewood, or Italian grove. The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z It was a lovely night: the freshness from the river and the scent of the young leaves came through the open windows, together with the trills and calls of the nightingales. A Russian Gentleman 2012-02-08T03:00:18.800Z It's all violent, without a dream of a nuance or a hint of "distinction"; all prose trumpets and castanets and such—with never a touch of the fiddle-string or a note of the nightingale. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z We rested beside many an ancient ruin overclambered by red rosebuds or by branches laden with the fresh gold of oranges, where thrushes practised songs of welcome for the nightingales. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z Presently the voice of the nightingale is heard, and then ceases. The Moral Instruction of Children 2012-02-02T03:04:33.057Z The solitude, the song of the nightingale, and the intoxicating odors of the jasmine, had put Ribâta into a sentimental mood. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z Some nightingale pouring out love upon a moonlit night? The Four Corners of the World 2012-01-26T03:00:15.920Z "Every thing did banish moan, Save the nightingale alone: She, poor bird, as all forlorn, Leaned her breast up-till a thorn, And there sung the dolefull'st ditty, That to hear it was great pity." Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 100, September 27, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-01-25T03:00:37.190Z And since all living creatures slumber now, O nightingale, save only thou and I, Tell me the secret of thine ecstacy, That none may know save only I and thou. Donahoe's Magazine, Volume XV, No. 3 Volume XV (Jan 1886-Jul 1886) 2012-01-23T03:00:12.223Z The father leads his little boy before the cage and asks him which of the two he believes to have been the sweet musician, the brightly colored greenfinch or the outwardly unattractive nightingale. The Moral Instruction of Children 2012-02-02T03:04:33.057Z While the nightingale with singing, Tells his love to earth and sky, Sounds at last love's hour of promise, Hour of hope and nuptial joy. Martha or, The Fair at Richmond 2012-01-19T03:00:23.947Z I hear the wind among the pines; I hear the water roaring in the deeps; I hear the distant song of the nightingale; but her voice I do not hear. The Monk and The Hangman's Daughter 2012-01-19T03:00:23.620Z Then I thought of Helmeth Garrett and one night in Sienna when the moonlight poured white over the cathedral ... and a linden tree in bloom outside the window ... and a nightingale singing in it ... A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z He entertained no gout, no ache he felt, The air was good and temperate, where he dwelt; While mavises and sweet-tongued nightingales Did sing him roundelays and madrigals. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z "Yes, miss; the nightingale and the cuckoo is a-'ollerin', every night!" Mr. Punch's Cockney Humour 2012-01-17T03:00:15.233Z Laughing flowers that gem the meadows, With the stars in beauty vie, While the nightingale with singing, Tells his love to earth and sky. Martha or, The Fair at Richmond 2012-01-19T03:00:23.947Z A nightingale began to sing in the twilight; we stepped along in silence as far as the rhododendron bushes, now in rosy bud. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z This perhaps was also where he held his nocturnal duet with the nightingale, which was singing with especial sweetness just outside his cell. The Story of Assisi 2012-01-14T03:00:18.710Z There the nightingale, the traitor, Lingered on his giddy way; And these words of hidden treachery To the dove I heard him say: “I will be thy servant, lady, I will ne’er thy love betray.” Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z No summer begins there, and spring never ends, It mingles with autumn, with winter it blends; Its primroses bloom when the barley is ripe, Amid its red apples the nightingales pipe. Mr. Punch's Cockney Humour 2012-01-17T03:00:15.233Z "They don't sing like nightingales," the Captain admitted. A Drake by George! 2012-01-09T03:00:22.163Z Note how their fragrant beauty glads the nightingale! The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z I have often gone there alone and listened to the nightingale talking about you. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z I know that the happy poet is a liar when he says that the nightingale is celebrating my love for Mamie, for the nightingale is concerned with other matters. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z It was a perfect June night, the heavens a sable pall studded with innumerable star-clusters, the little vagrant breezes redolent of new mown hay, a nightingale singing in a nearby boscage. In Jeopardy 2012-01-04T03:00:35.013Z He called her the “nightingale” of the army and the entire nation. Yaffa Yarkoni, 86, Who Sang for Israeli Wartime Troops, Is Dead 2012-01-03T02:52:28Z The clouds have washed away the dust which dimmed the roses; and nightingales seem whispering to the yellow flowers that wine is balm for all. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z I wonder why your nightingale Is mute at sunset! A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker 2012-01-03T03:00:13.067Z But as between a nightingale who is sympathetic with my emotions and a sarcastic waterfall, I prefer the nightingale. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z When the huge nightingale had retired to the wings, the Colonel offered his prot�g�e a cornucopia full of caramels. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z All night above that garden the rose-flushed moon will sail, Making the darkness deeper where hides the nightingale. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z The roses scatter their blossoms, the nightingales fill the air with their song, and would it be reasonable to renounce drinking in a moment like this? The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z There he gave imitations of the nightingale and monkey, of the form and movement of the snake; and at Bartholomew Fair he acted the part of Tom Thumb. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z —Where is the earliest notice of the fable of the nightingale and the thorn? that she sings because she has a thorn in her breast? Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 97, September 6, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2011-12-30T03:00:24.060Z Her sister was appropriated by General Pati�o, who was giving her an elaborate account of the mode of rearing and feeding nightingales in captivity. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z All night above that garden the rose-flushed moon will sail, Making the darkness deeper where hides the nightingale. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z The nightingale that in the Branches sang, Ah, whence, and whither flown again, who knows! The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z “Who ever heard a nightingale say ‘Maud’?” was the somewhat stern reply. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z There the nightingale finds her green cloister; and on those branches sometimes, like a great fruit, hangs the lemon-colored Moon. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z He played female parts in our comedies and tragedies with much ability, and sang like a nightingale. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z All night above that garden the rose-flushed moon will sail, Making the darkness deeper where hides the nightingale. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z The roses had flowered thrice, and for the fourth time were in bud; the nights were warm, the nightingale had not ceased to sing. The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere 2011-12-10T03:00:17.800Z But of course she did not mind anything of that kind, because she was thinking all the time about the nightingale. Fairies I Have Met 2011-12-10T03:00:13.687Z A Wisconsin poet may write very beautifully about nightingales, and a New England Unitarian may write beautifully about cathedrals; if it is beautiful, it is poetry, and all is well. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z "Oft in the stilly night," when the moonlight sheds a silvery radiance about every sleeping creature, the mockingbird sings to his mate such delicious music as only the European nightingale can rival. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z The summer birds have vanished oversea, But Memory's palace-courts are full of song; There sings a nightingale for you and me, And there a hidden lute plays all day long. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z I’m afraid it was sometimes a bulbul, or nightingale, and more than once it was a canary. Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat 2011-12-08T03:00:24.107Z "A nightingale, my dear?" said the Wise Man. Fairies I Have Met 2011-12-10T03:00:13.687Z Our poets, enamored of nightingales and Persian gardens, have not altogether forgotten the mocking-bird and the woods of Maine. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z The cardinal grosbeak, or Virginian nightingale, Cardinalis virginianus, claims notice here, though doubts may be entertained as to the family to which it really belongs. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z Below the Sabine mountain The tossed and slender fountain Will curve, a lily pale; And where the plumed pine soars tallest, 'Tis there, O nightingale, thou callest; Where the loud water leaps the highest. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z It was as if a stork should seek to emulate a nightingale. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z Every day she became more anxious to be a nightingale, until at last she thought about it always, and yet seemed no nearer to her wish. Fairies I Have Met 2011-12-10T03:00:13.687Z There was to him nothing boding or sinister in the voices of the night birds, any more than there was in the jubilant shout of the cuckoo by day, or the twanging of the nightingale. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z Another nightingale began singing in his own woods—the same one that had told him what to do, he said to himself. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z It is a burst of melody as spontaneous and free as the song of a nightingale. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z And in Spring what a choir of nightingales sang in the gnarled whitethorn trees by the sunk fence, and in late summer what myriads of grasshoppers chirruped in the twilight. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z The bird's beautiful voice was not the voice of the nightingale, the Bird of Shadows; but the voice of the lark, the Sun-Bird, who is never sad. Fairies I Have Met 2011-12-10T03:00:13.687Z A certain nightingale, who, at eight precisely every morning, broke in upon my slumbers with delicious singing, did not figure in the bill. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z What other things the nightingales had sung to him, years ago! Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z Nicolette lay one night sleepless on her bed, and watched the moon shine brightly through the casement, and listened to the nightingale plain in the garden. Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends 2011-11-24T03:00:40.487Z The cuckoo will call in the green wood and the nightingale thrill the moonshine with her passionate song, but Phyllida will stare into the sun. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z "Please," she said, "I want to be a nightingale." Fairies I Have Met 2011-12-10T03:00:13.687Z Shades of Rousseau and Wordsworth, to mention the nightingale and the ortolans in one breath! Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism 2011-11-23T03:00:55.563Z But first one and then another nightingale began to fill the night with their April madness. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z He was smaller than a sparrow, but larger than a wren, and he sang so sweetly that neither lark nor nightingale nor blackbird, nay, nor siren even, was so grateful to the ear. Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends 2011-11-24T03:00:40.487Z She knew she was no nightingale, Yet spite of much abuse, She longed to help and cheer the world, Although a plain gray goose. Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals 2011-11-20T03:00:14.840Z She was pretty sure that nightingales never wore pearl necklaces. Fairies I Have Met 2011-12-10T03:00:13.687Z He saw Chanteloup and heard a nightingale there, but was far more interested in "an ingenious contrivance to hide the projecting steps of a stair-case." Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism 2011-11-23T03:00:55.563Z Far away, up in the wood, the nightingales were singing. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z Go along in, both of you, and sing about your roses and jugs of wine and nightingales and moons of delight. The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel 2011-11-17T03:00:37.293Z We have here the lark and the nightingale, and my husband sings to the lyre.” Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z It was then that the nightingale, the Bird of Shadows, sang to her; and this was what she liked better than anything else. Fairies I Have Met 2011-12-10T03:00:13.687Z We turn away from the scene, and enter the shady gardens that stretch along the Guadalquivir, to scent the flowers and to listen to the thrush and nightingale. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z It was so still that water sounds came faintly up to him, and every now and then he could even hear nightingales on the European side. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z And so evening came again, drenched in starlight and rose-perfume, and stirring rapturously to the voice of the nightingale. The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel 2011-11-17T03:00:37.293Z Night came on; Eros sang, the nightingale filled the air with her sweet notes. Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z To be able to sing like the nightingale was more important than anything else, she felt. Fairies I Have Met 2011-12-10T03:00:13.687Z The nightingales still sing among the odorous orange bloom, and in the tangles of roses birds build their nests. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z Just then a nightingale burst out singing, but so near and so loud that he started and looked over his shoulder. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z I can at your wish change myself into all possible shapes, to-day into a falcon, to-morrow into a greyhound, a nightingale, a sheep, or any other form. The Diamond Fairy Book 2011-11-14T03:00:18.297Z The nightingale uttered a cry, and she thought it was an owl. Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z It flew higher up into the sky than any nightingale ever flew. Fairies I Have Met 2011-12-10T03:00:13.687Z Beneath the odorous orange trees, where innumerable nightingales warble, one may watch the afternoon procession of carriages and pedestrians. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z The irony of the contrast paralyzed his hand for a strange moment, and of the difference between this spring night and other spring nights when nightingales had sung. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z The nightingale is of a tawny colour on the head and back, and of a greyish white on the throat and under parts. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z The night was sultry and heavy with thunder; the flowers, exhausted, hung their heads; the nightingale uttered a cry, and she thought it was an owl. Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z They have thriven well in Spanish soil, and harbour a colony of nightingales and other singing-birds, unusually numerous for this land of passion, where wines are rich and birds are rare. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z All, all gone now was the hour of exaltation in which I had heard the nightingale sing and had felt my glowing girl's breast heaving against my own. In Accordance with the Evidence 2011-11-06T02:00:12.393Z A nightingale began to sing again, very near them—the nightingale, thought the Pasha. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z If the nightingale is the chauntress of the woods, the canary is the musician of the chamber; the first owes all to nature, the second something to art. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z Beyond lay the dimmed mirror of the lake, and beside it rose the dark mass of the wood in which the nightingales were singing. Across the Stream 2011-11-05T02:00:11.673Z As to the nightingale, she dare not try her strength against his, for fear of failure. The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century 2011-11-04T02:00:24.773Z She never quite put me back again into the place I had occupied before that Saturday when we had heard the nightingale together, but newer preoccupations overlay this relation. In Accordance with the Evidence 2011-11-06T02:00:12.393Z Ma�stro, whose chant like the dulcimer rings; And the woods will be hushed when the nightingale sings. Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z The blackbird has to some extent the power of the mocking bird, of imitating the sounds it hears,—such as the chuckling of a hen, the song of the nightingale, the caw of the crow. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z Not a breeze stirred in the cypresses, but in the thickets of ilex below the Love that moved the sun and the other stars thrilled in the hearts of innumerable nightingales. Across the Stream 2011-11-05T02:00:11.673Z "My father is the nightingale, Who high within the bosky pale, On branches sings; My mother's the canary; she Sings on the high banks where the sea Its salt spray flings." Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature 2011-10-29T02:00:13.050Z All these had excellencies for him; and I have often heard him dilate on the sweet strains of the nightingale, and on the thoughts that bewitched him the first time he heard one.' The Bront? Family, Vol. 1 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? 2011-10-27T02:00:24.317Z The love of the nightingale for this flower is proverbial in the East. The South Isles of Aran 2011-10-26T02:00:28.363Z The canary can speak and whistle; the nightingale despises our words, as well as our airs, and never fails to return to its own wild-wood notes. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z They were telling of a nightingale they had heard sing near Queens Mere. The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z The nightingale had ceased, and a few stars Were lingering in the heavens, while the thrush Began calm-throated. Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature 2011-10-29T02:00:13.050Z No song of English nightingale could strike deeper to my heart. Thirty Years in Australia 2011-10-25T02:00:27.397Z Fair Primrose haunts the shadow With children of the Spring, Till in the bloomy woodland The nightingale will sing. The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges 2011-10-22T02:00:26.887Z The nightingale is found in Yorkshire but not in Lancashire, also in Surrey, Sussex, Kent, Dorsetshire, Somersetshire and East Devonshire, but not in Cornwall. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z They were happy men, and their glowing visions added to the joy of the court on its journey amid singing nightingales and pealing bells. The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines 2011-10-22T02:00:26.240Z The description of the nightingale on its high branches, too, is a noticeably accurate touch, as we compare it, for example, with Coleridge's nightingale descriptions. Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature 2011-10-29T02:00:13.050Z Cuckoos, nightingales, and every species of bird, singing, or rather chirping, glorified the festival of Christmas, and announced to the assembled congregation the birth of the Redeemer. The Influence of the Organ in History Inaugural Lecture of the Department of the Organ in the College of Music of Boston University 2011-10-20T02:00:26.947Z Or when we hark't to nightingales that sang On dewy eves in spring, did they entice To gentler love than winter's icy fang? The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges 2011-10-22T02:00:26.887Z But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet, loud music out of her instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think that miracles are not ceased. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z But we must not forget that he addressed some verses to a nightingale heard on New Year's Day. Birds and Man 2011-10-20T02:00:25.513Z Love, it is dark among your roses; And how, since the nightingales are fled, Can I tell your heart how my heart is lowly, To touch the ground where your sandals tread? The Deluge and Other Poems 2011-10-15T02:00:29.350Z In the branches, warblers, finches and nightingales sang to their hearts’ content the sweetest songs of Paradise. Flemish Legends 2011-10-10T02:00:21.467Z The nightingale at end of May Lingers each year for their display; Till when he sees their blossoms blown, He knows the spring is flown. The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges 2011-10-22T02:00:26.887Z Far sweeter than even the music of the spheres, those nightingales of space, is this most beautiful note in the song of creation! Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z As much could be said of any other migrant's song—nightingale, tree-pipit, blackcap, garden warbler, swallow, and a dozen more. Birds and Man 2011-10-20T02:00:25.513Z From the drawing-room below a woman's throbbing voice drifted up, singing an Indian love song, and when it ceased the whole night was set a quiver by a nightingale's outburst of appeal. The Sins of the Children A Novel 2011-10-09T02:00:27.520Z She has slain the Miserable, the sweet maid; the nightingale has vanquished the falcon! Flemish Legends 2011-10-10T02:00:21.467Z Comparison of poets nought avails: Eagles with pards, gazelles with nightingales! A Century of Emblems 2011-10-08T02:00:24.280Z "The shrill-voiced nightingale, Who at thy casement bower Pours out his breathless tale," reminds him of the questioning soul at the window of eternity," peering through panes on darkness unconfined." Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z It comforts me a little in this inquiry to remember that Wordsworth preferred the stock-dove to the nightingale—that "creature of ebullient heart." Birds and Man 2011-10-20T02:00:25.513Z "I'm crazy about you!" said Belle; and this time her laugh awoke the echoes of the river and filled a nightingale near by with a pathetic ambition to emulate its music. The Sins of the Children A Novel 2011-10-09T02:00:27.520Z For the rest he was a coward and cruel, delighting during his childhood in teasing, frightening and hurting puppies and kittens, sparrows, thrushes, finches, nightingales, and all small beasts. Flemish Legends 2011-10-10T02:00:21.467Z It was the voice I prize More than the sound of April in the dales, More than the songs of larks and nightingales, And more than the teachings of the worldly-wise. Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems 2011-10-08T02:00:23.627Z Then, again, he likens himself to a nightingale, caged for days in the mournful cold, that bursts into a rapturous melody to see the warm sun melt away the gloom. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z Imagine something between young men and angels; Fatally beauteous, and have killing eyes; Their voices charm beyond the nightingale's; They are all enchantment: Those, who once behold them, Are made their slaves for ever. Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love 2011-10-08T02:00:22.420Z The King would have felt lonely had not the Italian nightingale, Faustina Bordoni, brightened his gloomy thoughts by her lovely voice. Count Br?hl 2011-10-06T02:00:41.430Z “Ah,” said his lady, “may the very good God watch over our little one, and may our old ears hear this fledgeling nightingale singing always.” Flemish Legends 2011-10-10T02:00:21.467Z Lo, as a minstrel at the court of Love, The nightingale, who knows his mate is nigh, Thrills into rapture; and the stars above Look down, affrighted, as they would reply. Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems 2011-10-08T02:00:23.627Z No nightingale of sentiment trills her dulcet serenade amid the forest of his song. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z The invisible wind that stirred the petals of the orange blossom brought with it the swish of the sea, and somewhere, far off, a nightingale was singing. The Fairies and the Christmas Child 2011-09-29T02:00:12.583Z "There are compensations," as James says, "and no outward changes of condition in life can keep the nightingale of its eternal meaning from singing in all sorts of different men's hearts." Theology and the Social Consciousness A Study of the Relations of the Social Consciousness to Theology (2nd ed.) 2011-09-27T02:00:21.343Z And they said: “The nightingale is come back again to the house, and her music makes the fires of spring sunshine stir in our bones.” Flemish Legends 2011-10-10T02:00:21.467Z The moon, so sad and silver-pale, Is mistress of the nightingale; And thou wilt sing on hill and dale no ditties in the darkness. Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems 2011-10-08T02:00:23.627Z With her full, fair face, Sings like a nightingale; In her satin dress, With its brilliant trimming, She is very fair. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z It's a nightingale in the woods, and it'll be singing when all the rest of 'em are still trying to find out where the wire is. Taking Chances 2011-09-21T02:00:36.667Z That half-hour in the park of old Hampton Court, with the nightingale singing its sweet song as an accompaniment to the great hosanna which filled her heart. The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z But no nightingale will ever sing so joyously as Jan Steen painted. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z The nightingale's a friend of mine, And yesternight she flew my way. Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems 2011-10-08T02:00:23.627Z I am the nearest nightingale That singeth in Eden after you; And I am singing loud and true, And sweet,—I do not fail. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I 2011-09-20T02:00:18.217Z He crept out of the cave and stood in the moonlight, breathing the perfume of the jungle, feeling the cool night air, hearing the mellow notes of the Polynesian nightingale. The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon and other humorous tales 2011-09-17T02:00:25.067Z The intoxicating odour of summer's dying roses filled the air, whilst in the distance across the stream a nightingale began to sing. The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z Like the nightingale's notes, when the fragrance of the rose intoxicates her yearning young heart with desire, they floated in the evening twilight. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z And how the lark, to drown the nightingale, Peal'd out sweet notes? Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems 2011-10-08T02:00:23.627Z My nightingale sang sweet without a fault, My gentle leopards innocently bounded. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I 2011-09-20T02:00:18.217Z From dusk to moon-rise the orchestra of frogs, and afterwards the concert of nightingales, which, after all, I do not hear, as, after daily toil, I am sound asleep. Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland 2011-09-16T02:00:19.893Z The nightingale again assays his song and through the day And through the night warbles luxuriant: every bird of song Attending his loud harmony with admiration and love. William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work 2011-09-13T02:00:35.943Z The story of the nightingale of Basle here comes to my mind, and, as it is probably unknown to you, I will relate it. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z And she hath wonder-worlds of song So heavenly beautiful, and shed So sweetly from her honeyed tongue, The savage creatures, it is said, Hark marble-still their wilds among, And nightingales fall dead. The Triumph of Music And Other Lyrics 2011-09-11T02:00:09.677Z He led the way to a lonely corner of the garden, where a nightingale was pouring out its soul. Stories of Great Musicians 2011-09-10T02:00:28.157Z The days were warm, but it was easy to avoid heat in the shade of the thicket; the nights were clear, calm, moonlight, and then the groves were quivering from the singing of nightingales. Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z She could speak in every language, work in silk and crewels, paint china plaques, make mince-pies, sing like a nightingale, and play anything on the piano at sight with her eyes shut! The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book 2011-09-09T02:01:11.180Z Even the nightingale was slandered, and it was customary to make the sign of the cross when she sang. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z The author agrees with Plato and Wordsworth that the nightingale is ‘a creature of a fiery heart’, and that the song is one of mirth and not lamentation. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z As the summer waned apace, and the leaves on the chestnuts changed to a darker, hardier green, the nightingales ceased their song; but, somehow, we never missed them much, there were so many other songsters. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z Why, the piano just warbled them out like a nightingale! Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay 2011-09-07T02:00:17.597Z At ten years old she could speak many languages, play on all known instruments, write essays and sermons, dance like a sylph, sing like a nightingale, and make chocolate caramel. The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book 2011-09-09T02:01:11.180Z But suddenly, in the midst of their abstract and dogmatical discussions, they paused, transfixed, before a blooming linden-tree, on which sat a nightingale, trilling and trolling the sweetest and tenderest strains. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z They seem to be now divested of all extraneous characteristics and are become refined and ethereal, and are in fact the nightingales of the stringed tribe. Violins and Violin Makers Biographical Dictionary of the Great Italian Artistes, their Followers and Imitators, to the present time. With Essays on Important Subjects Connected with the Violin. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.337Z The nightingales hop around the lawn all day, but they do not bathe, and they do not sing now; they devour terribly long earthworms instead. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z As we came back in the evening the nightingales were singing, and I could not help wishing that P. were there to hear them, as he has such a passion for birds. Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay 2011-09-07T02:00:17.597Z Dimple waited upon the landing, while Jim glided up to the cupboard where the nightingale was kept. The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book 2011-09-09T02:01:11.180Z We are like the nightingales, that delight in the rose itself, and derive as delicious a pleasure from the sight of the blushing, blooming flower as from its invisible fragrance. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z Down in this quiet copse the nightingale and blackcap still trilled their song, and gorgeous birds and butterflies innumerable flew hither and thither, all so happy in their freedom. In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life 2011-08-31T02:01:35.803Z He even borrows some notes from the nightingale, after the arrival of that bird in the country; a very sorry imitation he makes of them, doubtless, but still you can recognise them for all that. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z Then she heard a clear voice sounding from the forest: it was a little nightingale, who sat among the branches and sang: "Maiden, maiden, loose his chains!" The Swedish Fairy Book 2011-08-26T02:00:23.380Z They cage them for singing, nightingales, thrushes, and every kind of finch; and you can see them, poor isolated captives, in rows and rows of cages in the markets. Limbo and Other Essays To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua 2011-08-25T02:00:33.233Z "You shouldn't be like the nightingales, and give your music only to night and solitude." Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories 2011-08-25T02:00:30.323Z On the contrary, Will Honeycombe calls them the Ramage de la ville, and prefers them to the sound of larks, and nightingales, with all the music of the fields and woods. A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern 2011-08-19T02:00:15.893Z And now we listened every night for the nightingale’s song. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z A single bird is wanting, the nightingale, but it is compensated a thousandfold by the mocking bird. The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier 2011-08-17T02:00:27.330Z THE SONG-MAKER: In the daytime chirp the thrushes; But the nightingale Waits until the moonlit hushes To pour forth her tale; Wiser nightingale! The Dales of Arcady 2011-08-16T02:00:42.740Z A woodpecker, startled, flew off with a discordant “Yuckle!” the dove ceased to coo; the brown nightingale was silent, and sought a distant hazel-thicket. Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z The nightingale sang in the musical April night, the cowslips opened, and the bees hummed over the meadows. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z And I shouldn’t think that even my mavis would dare to mock the nightingale. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z Even as he spoke we could hear the song of the nightingale, for the windows were open, and the night was still. The Coming of the King 2011-08-13T02:00:24.197Z They were silent; but through the open window came, with power increasing each moment, the trill of the nightingales, with which all that clear night seemed filled. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z “Jug-jug-jug!” sang the nightingale hard by in the hawthorn—the nightingale that by night is sad, but whose heart is full of joy in the morning. Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z Listening one night as he was in bed he remarked, “The nightingale has two songs: first he sings ‘Sir-rup—sir-rup,’ and then he sings ‘Tweet.’ Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z “Listen,” said my wife; “yonder, close by us in the Portugal laurel, is the nightingale.” Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z “Has the nightingale made a mistake?” asked Mr. Hammerton, as they were crossing to the gate. Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline A Story of the Development of a Young Girl's Life 2011-08-09T02:00:30.317Z "Permit me, gentlemen, to draw breath," said Jendzian; "and I will close the window, for those wretches of nightingales are tearing away in the bushes at such a rate that it is impossible to speak." With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z The air was filled with the odoriferous breath of young leaves and flowers, and the woods resounded with the sweetest notes of unnumbered nightingales. The Devil's Elixir Vol. II (of 2) 2011-08-09T02:00:28.197Z A nightingale built in the hedge near the house, and all night long her voice echoed in the bed room. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z Wrens are fed in the same way as robins or nightingales are. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z Then she scribbled, “A nightingale made a mistake.” Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline A Story of the Development of a Young Girl's Life 2011-08-09T02:00:30.317Z The crow sings as sweetly as the nightingale if no one is listening, and importance is no better than insignificance if there is no one “there to see.” Body, Parentage and Character in History Notes on the Tudor Period 2011-08-08T02:00:20.193Z And, after that, what with the shining moon, And nightingales beginning in the dusk, And songs and music that you made for me— In a little while I was entirely yours!... Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z He came near the nightingale’s young brood, safely reared. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z “Well, then, the fellow must have a throat like a nightingale,” asserted the enthusiastic Pep. The Motion Picture Chums at Seaside Park The Rival Photo Theatres of the Boardwalk 2011-08-05T02:00:44.900Z Modern progress, except where it has exterminated them, has scarcely touched the habits of bird or animal; so almost up to the very houses of the metropolis the nightingale yearly returns to her former haunts. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z In the later spring this is a lovely spot, the ground all tinted with the shimmering colour of the bluebells, and the hazel musical with the voice of the nightingale. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z Had she a voice like a garden of nightingales He could not listen to her without loathing.... Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z These wild hops are a favourite cover with nightingales. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z You ought to hear his whole repertoire—orioles, thrushes, mourning doves, nightingales, mocking birds. The Motion Picture Chums at Seaside Park The Rival Photo Theatres of the Boardwalk 2011-08-05T02:00:44.900Z The nightingales arrive and sing, and with them the white butterfly appears. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z He pondered over it a long time; for you know, Fritz, that though nightingales are good singers, they have the sharpest beaks in the world. The Blockade of Phalsburg An Episode of the End of the Empire 2011-07-27T02:00:39.197Z There must be some one in the garden; the nightingales have suddenly ceased singing. Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z A short time before we arrived some mischievous wretch had shot a nightingale, and was caught in the fact. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. I (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:11.383Z "I did not know I had such an audience, or I should have been too diffident to play the nightingale," Maxwell laughed. The League of the Leopard 2011-07-23T02:00:12.490Z There is no note so sweet and deep and melodious as that of the blackbird to be heard in our fields; it is even richer than the nightingale’s, though not so varied. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z The spider, like the swallow, the nightingale, the dolphin, the frog, was once a human being, metamorphosed by an angry deity. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z How much longer are you going to discuss these nightingales? Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z “The nightingale of the revolution,” one activist called him. Blunt Anthem Tells Syrian Leader It?s Time to Go 2011-07-21T18:10:06Z Ask me no more whither doth haste The nightingale when May is past, For in your sweet dividing throat She winters, and keeps warm her note. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 4, September 1893 2011-07-21T02:00:22.737Z The nightingale is one of the birds whose habit of returning every year to the same spot can hardly be overlooked by anyone. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z The cool breath of the spring evening rustled through the leaves, and amid the branches the nightingales softly trilled their songs. A Twofold Life 2011-07-21T02:00:21.433Z When he had purchased his wife he expected wifeliness; just as when, having bought twig and timber, he had bought the song of the nightingale too. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z There is a mouth of music like a lute, A nightingale that singeth to one flower; Between the falling flower and the fruit, Where love hath died, the music of an hour. Kentucky Poems 2011-07-11T02:00:07.060Z But the window looked into a garden whence he could hear nightingales singing, doves cooing, and the murmur of a brook. Polish Fairy Tales 2011-07-10T02:00:20.137Z If there is a hawthorn bush near their favourite nesting-place they will frequent it by choice, but of itself it will not bring nightingales. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z We canter'd along until it grew dark, Galloping, dreary, dun, The nightingale sung instead of the lark, With her, &c. The Castle of Andalusia A Comic Opera, in Three Acts 2011-07-09T02:00:12.740Z The cuckoo's note was heard in the beech groves, and the nightingale was come. King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 2 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. 2011-07-07T02:00:26.270Z He asks the “wild bird,” probably the nightingale, whose liquid song brings a sense of Eden back again, to define the feelings of the heart, its emotions and passions. A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam' 2011-07-07T02:00:25.637Z Do you not hear the nightingale that sang The song of our betrothal in Provence? The Immortal Lure 2011-07-06T02:00:50.730Z The wood which is the roosting-place of all the rooks, large as it is, has but one haunt of the nightingale. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z I will bring you food by day, then lead you to our unfrequented groves by moonlight, to listen to the nightingale. Inkle and Yarico An opera, in three acts 2011-07-06T02:00:44.873Z Yet in thy youth rejoice; We hear alone while lasts the moon of flowers The nightingale's sweet voice. The Student-Life of Germany 2011-07-03T02:00:09.143Z The notes of the nightingale are supposed to be both sorrowful and joyous. A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam' 2011-07-07T02:00:25.637Z The nightingale plunder'd, the mate-widow'd dove, The warbled complaint of the suffering grove, To youth as it ripened gave sentiment new, The object still changing, the sympathy true. The Heiress; a comedy, in five acts 2011-07-02T02:00:12.813Z On the upper and clearer branches of the hawthorn the nightingale sings—more sweetly, I think, in the freshness of the spring morning than at night. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z To praise the song of a nightingale can hardly be reckoned any proof of special bird-lore, and except in the Parlement of Foules, Chaucer scarcely mentions any other bird by name. Chaucer and His Times 2011-06-30T02:00:26.883Z The sky began to thicken, and the lowing of the cattle to have a melancholy cadence; the nightingale forgot her song, and fled to her nest; and the sea roared and lashed the rocks. Mary Wollstonecraft's Original Stories 2011-06-26T02:00:10.173Z Reminds one of birds and nightingales and rose bowers. The Weight of the Crown 2011-06-26T02:00:09.240Z It will sing of court-yards in Fez where fountains splash all the hot, still days, of midnight, in the Alhambra gardens, and the nightingales of lost Zahara. A Man's Hearth 2011-06-25T02:00:17.093Z In the spring of last year, in a warm district, the nightingale sang on the 12th of April, a swallow appeared on the 13th, and the note of the cuckoo was heard on the 15th. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z No sound from without can reach this enchanted retreat, where nothing is heard but the rippling of the waters, and the song of the nightingales. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z We heard the splash of a fountain at a distance, and the thrilling notes of a nightingale amongst some taller trees. Auriol or, The Elixir of Life 2011-06-24T02:00:23.867Z The girls sung several canons; Laertes whistled in the manner of a nightingale; and the Pedant gave a symphony pianissimo upon the Jew's-harp. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z She only knew that when the immortal nightingale sang to his rose, it must be in some such song as this.... The Disturbing Charm 2011-06-17T02:00:21.077Z Here the stream of vehicles and passengers is nearly continuous; and the birch copse abounds with nightingales in the spring. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z To-day we have heard the first nightingale; for they would not trust April. Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z There's a long, long trail a-winding Into the land of my dreams; Where the nightingales are singing, And a white moon beams. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z When he rose, turtle-doves were cooing in dreams, and a nightingale warbled; the hot fountains smoked glimmering, and the happy singing of far-off people came up to his ears. Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z Two pelicans also appeared, and the air was so soft and balmy that Columbus declared nothing but nightingales were wanting, to render the nights as delicious as those of Andalusia. Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay 2011-06-14T02:00:24.670Z Several times I stood under an oak bough that projected across the sward by the roadside, with a nightingale perched on it overhead straining his throat. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Like the Ode on Indolence, the nightingale ode begins with the confession of a mood of ‘drowsy numbness,’ but this time one deeper and nearer to pain and heartache. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z But these blossoms, these nightingales, these springs you have given me; you have breathed over my life an eternal May, and wrung from a human eye tears of joy--but what have I to give? The Invisible Lodge 2011-06-09T02:00:19.470Z The nightingales skipped musically among the silvery twigs; only the human beings had a voiceless heaven and love. Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z With the lark we are safe, and the nightingale sings no false note. A Word to Women 2011-06-08T02:00:18.457Z I mentally resolved, as we drove through the magnificent arch of his palace gate, that, although I might taste of the nightingales of Hortensius, I certainly would take none of his fish. In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z They are not good, but interesting as containing in embryo ideas which afterwards grew into great poetry in the nightingale ode, the first book of Endymion, and the Ode to Melancholy. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z In all Avignon’s gardens the nightingales were mute As at her open casement she played upon her lute. Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter 2011-06-06T02:00:08.460Z His sister alone had looked after him from the eminence; then she, too, was lost to sight,--the nightingales still called faintly after him,--at last all was veiled. Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z At that moment their instruments were mute, all being attentively engaged in listening to a young girl whose charming voice rang through the saloon like the warblings of a nightingale. The Thousand and One Days A Companion to the 'Arabian Nights' 2011-06-04T02:00:14.880Z His demand for nightingales’ tongues has silenced half the bird-music in the world.” In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z Ellen is as rare among women, as the nightingale among song birds," I answered, "but Nelly is lovable and womanly, and I owe her an unpaid debt. Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman 2011-06-04T02:00:12.520Z The song of the nightingale and the ring of the woodman's axe gain a rich musical quality from the great fir wood. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z Here nightingales, first of all, with their melody drew him into the world. Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z I am in despair," replied the princess, weeping bitterly; "my nightingale is dead. The Thousand and One Days A Companion to the 'Arabian Nights' 2011-06-04T02:00:14.880Z Hortensius is fond of fish as well as of nightingales’ tongues. In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z He told us the girl had a voice as sweet as the nightingale's; that her eyes were like wood violets, her laugh like the forest brook. A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z Yulun—beloved—the nightingale sang all night long—all night long.... The Slayer Of souls 2011-06-01T02:00:26.487Z Out of dark chestnut woods, on moonlit hills, the nightingales called to one another. Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z I wish that nightingale to be caught; let birdcatchers be sent for. The Thousand and One Days A Companion to the 'Arabian Nights' 2011-06-04T02:00:14.880Z Universal silence prevailed, only that in the forest thickets the nightingales' songs were heard. The Mantle and Other Stories 2011-05-29T02:00:07.233Z And to the right a lattice make, A passage for the day, Where the swallow, bringing springtide, May dart about and play, And the nightingale, sweet singer, Tell the happy month of May. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z There are houses I wot of where those clamorous whispers drown the nightingales. Men, Women and Guns 2011-05-27T02:00:17.367Z By degrees furrows of shade stole down the mountain along with the dark lava-streams, and in the poplars nightingales began already their melodious twilight. Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z "I will pass into the body of the dog," thought I, "for I wish to see what effect the death of her nightingale will produce upon the princess." The Thousand and One Days A Companion to the 'Arabian Nights' 2011-06-04T02:00:14.880Z The nightingales of the Ukraine are singing, and it seems as though the moon itself were listening to their song. The Mantle and Other Stories 2011-05-29T02:00:07.233Z The Bulgarian sees a mountain trembling to the song of three nightingales. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z As to the nightingale, he would give her three dollars to sing ballads, but the rest of the troupe were beneath contempt. Famous Prima Donnas 2011-05-26T02:00:18.267Z Spring was already dawning upon Rome, and rising in Naples; the nightingale and man sang all night long, and the almond-trees were everywhere in bloom. Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z As soon as she perceived that the nightingale was dead, she uttered a shriek that brought all her slaves about her. The Thousand and One Days A Companion to the 'Arabian Nights' 2011-06-04T02:00:14.880Z At the same time upon a near-by balcony a nightingale began to sing, tentatively, as if trying the scope and quality of its voice. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z Like his Servian neighbours, he must always have a story, and here is his nightingale story. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z They called me 'the Swedish Nightingale,' and you can imagine how I felt,—a nightingale in such a climate, and Swedish at that. Famous Prima Donnas 2011-05-26T02:00:18.267Z And the brook flowed with me, now through wheat-fields; now through a little, fragrant night, through which the sun was seen behind sparkling glow-worms; now through a twilight, wherein warbled a golden nightingale. Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z Madam," said he, thinking that no one overheard him, "since the death of your nightingale causes you so much sorrow, he must be brought to life. The Thousand and One Days A Companion to the 'Arabian Nights' 2011-06-04T02:00:14.880Z On the balcony the nightingale, grown confident, burst into a flood of variations; a thousand trills and full-throated notes filled the room. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z Every morning the nightingale sings sweetly to the rose. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z See, in her nest, the nightingale’s mute mate, French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Nothing, not even the nightingale’s song in the last week in April, shall move me from my propriety. Mirror of the Months 2011-05-21T02:00:10.227Z If Zemroude was surprised to see her nightingale restored to life, she was not the less so to hear me utter these words with such fierce emotion. The Thousand and One Days A Companion to the 'Arabian Nights' 2011-06-04T02:00:14.880Z In this spring of theirs these nightingales go on singing until the summer solstice; the wedding-day is their longest day. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z I go into that garden Where there is the sweet song of the nightingale! Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z On every bush are roses blooming, everywhere the nightingale To his love again is warbling plaintively his oft-told tale. Memorial Day and Other Verse 2011-05-20T02:00:35.647Z In our climate the nightingale seldom sings above six weeks; beginning usually the last week in April. Mirror of the Months 2011-05-21T02:00:10.227Z He was for the company a lark at morn, a nightingale at night. The Comstock Club 2011-05-18T02:00:16.367Z As nightingales love to sing where there is an echo, so our hearts speak loudest to music. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z The season when "the nightingale sings to the rose at dewy dawn" departs swiftly, and envious winter strangles autumn in its birth. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z Animated as they were beautiful, they were always overflowing with vivacity and life; their conversation, which was incessant, was like the chirping of nightingales, and their laughter, like strings of musical pearls. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:14.897Z The wind rises, the trees shiver, the nightingales break off their singing, the fishes in the pond grow restive, the dogs cower in fear,—an unseen Presence walks through the garden. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z O nightingale! sweet bird—they say, That peace abides with thee; But thou hast brought from day to day A triple woe to me. An Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry; Serbian Lyrics 2011-05-14T02:00:10.287Z That feathered echo, the nightingale, was singing to us phrases of the music of the spheres, to us inaudible until thus repeated to us by her. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z On the cross-way of the alley the fair society parted, and the left branch of the same led Clotilda along by the nightingale back to the abode of gentle hearts. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography 2011-05-14T02:00:08.440Z Gentle zephyrs, fraught with the most delightful fragrance from the wilderness of flowers, softly saluted our senses; while occasionally the plaintive voices of southern nightingales came with mellowed sweetness to our ears. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:14.897Z Outside in the garden the air was heavy with the scent of southern flowers, and nightingales warbled in a concert of joy. A Fortunate Term 2011-05-12T02:00:10.623Z The noblemen, they quaff the cool wine, And to their knee there comes a little stag, With golden peacock proudly on one shoulder, While on the other, perching there as neighbour, Behold a silver-throated nightingale! An Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry; Serbian Lyrics 2011-05-14T02:00:10.287Z Enjoy a pretty face as you would a picture, and a female voice as you would a nightingale's, and don't touch the picture or throttle the bird. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z The tones of the nightingale throbbed now like high waves on the night,–then he gathered up his courage to bid her farewell.... Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography 2011-05-14T02:00:08.440Z "I am sad; the plaints of the nightingale strike upon my soul like echoes of future ones," said Victor. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography 2011-05-11T02:00:19.453Z And from somewhere the sweet love-tale of the elusive nightingale was told over and over again. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z Said the nightingale, "Favor us, please, with a song!" St. Nicholas Vol. XIII, September, 1886, No. 11 An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks 2011-05-07T02:00:31.650Z And he kissed her hand and took his harp, And the music sweetly rang; And when the song burst forth, it seemed 'T was the nightingale that sang. Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages 2011-05-04T02:00:19.257Z There are very few birds in it; but the nightingale sings there all day and the nightjar sings there all night. The Blue Rose Fairy Book 2011-05-03T02:00:18.777Z For the Evangelist differed from a nightingale in nothing except size. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography 2011-05-11T02:00:19.453Z The silvery treble of the nightingale floated down from afar, and the hilarious killdeers, king of all-night revelers, screamed aloft and flapped their speckled wings in the early starlight. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z |
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