Quotes about Nightingale

Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-imbroider'd vale Where the love-lorn nightingale Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well: Canst thou not tell me of a gentle pair That likest thy Narcissus are?

The mute grain turns to love songs when swallowed by the nightingale.

The wakeful nightingale, she all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd the firmament with living sapphires: Hesperus, that led the starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.

O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray warbl'st at eve, when all the woods are still.

Wilberforce was greatly renowned for his singing voice and came to be known as the "Nightingale of Commons"—probably not only for the remarkable quality of his voice but for the hours at which he sang.

It is a flaw In happiness to see beyond our bourn, - It forces us in summer skies to mourn, It spoils the singing of the nightingale.

And what else can I do, lame old man that I am, than sing the praise of God? If I were a nightingale, I would perform the work of a nightingale, and if I were a swan, that of a swan. But as it is, I am a rational being, and I must sing the praise of God. This is my work, and I accomplish it, and I will never abandon my post for as long as it is granted to me to remain in it; and I invite all of you to join me in this same song.

If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a rational creature my role is to praise God.