WHEN THE ROSE HAS FADED" When the rose has faded and the garden is withered, The song of the nightingale is no longer to be heard.
Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes, As he were fearful, that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth Hi?
And she hath watch'd Many a Nightingaleperch giddily On blosmy twig still swinging from the breeze, And to that motion tune his wanton song, Like tipsy Joy that reels with tossing head.
She remembered the achievements of Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War, and, though she was at the time herself more or less disabled, she undertook the heavy task of organising some sort of an army nursing corps.
It was the practice of Florence Nightingale to pay a last visit to the wards of the military hospital in the Crimea after the doctors and the other nurses had retired for the night.
Till out of the forest came springing Roebuck and rabbit and deer; Till the nightingale stopped in its singing And the black flitter-mice crowded near, The sweet music to hear.
Miss Nightingale talks to me of "the feelings usually called love," but then she is a heroine, perhaps a goddess.
Some weeks after this he took me to see Florence Nightingale in her house in South Street.
So the nightingale came forth and sang so delightfully that at first no one could say anything ill-humored of her.
Sur la plus haute branche Sweet the nightingalewas singing Le rossignol chantait; High on the topmost spray; Chante, rossignol, chante, Sweet bird!
The babble-wren and nightingale Sang in the Abyssinian vale That season of the year!
The nightingale and babble-wren Were in the English greenwood then, And you heard one of these?
In the stillness the nightingale grew bolder; the woods seemed saturated with song.
Over my bed a strange tree gleams And there a nightingale is loud.
And all the time her store of feathers was growing larger and larger, till it seemed to her that there were enough to make at least ten nightingales; but this was because she did not know how many feathers a nightingale likes to have.
To be able to sing like thenightingale was more important than anything else, she felt.
It flew higher up into the sky than any nightingale ever flew.
Don't you know that the nightingale is the Bird of Shadows, who sings by night and is very sad?
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.
Sophocles," Owen said, "speaks of the nightingale as moaning all the night in ivy clusters, moaning or humming.
Did she understand what he was feeling--the mystery of their lives written in the stars, sung by the nightingale and breathed by the flowers?
He thought our cardinal grosbeak, which he called the Virginia nightingale, as fine a whistler as the nightingale herself.
The nightingale is very restricted in its range, and is nearly silent by the middle of June.
No, he had not heard the nightingale for a few days; but the previous week he had been in camp with the militia near Guildford, and while on picket duty had heard her nearly all night.
This incident so impressed me that I paid little attention to the report of the next man I met, who said he had heard a nightingale just around a bend in the road, a few minutes' walk in advance of me.
I at once recognized its resemblance to the descriptions I had read of the opening part of the nightingale song,--what is called the "challenge.
This editor had extended White's date of June 15 to July 1, as the time to which the nightingale continues in song, and I felt like thanking him for it, as it gave me renewed hope.
That the total effect of his strain may be less winning and persuasive than the nocturne of the nightingale is the only question in my mind about the relative merits of the two songsters.
Finally, I leaped the smooth masonry of the stone wall and ambushed myself amid the tall ferns under a pine-tree, where the nightingale had been heard in the morning.
I got out my Gilbert White, as I should have done at an earlier day, and was still more disturbed to find that he limited the singing of the nightingale to June 15.
The cuckoo is done too, sir; and you don't hear the nightingale after the cuckoo is gone, sir.
A girl told me she had heard the nightingale yesterday on her way to Sunday-school, and pointed out the spot.
I knew there was a nightingalesomewhere whose brood had been delayed from some cause or other, and who was therefore still in song, but I could not get a clew to the spot.
I walk adown the narrow close, The nightingale is singing now; But like to me she seems at loss For Royce Wood and its shielding bough.
The green fields glistened in the sunshine, and the nightingale sang in Burghley Park; more beautiful, the poet fancied, than he had ever known her sing before.
It was Miss Nightingale who played the young Queen.
Miss Sarah Skipton is, one may say, the Star of our Troupe; Miss Circe Nightingale is the Pearl!
Circe Nightingale smiled graciously on Moukounj, and caressed me with her pretty hand a long time--for which I thanked her, feeling that already we were friends.
The dew was dripping among the leaves, the nightingale had ceased to trill.
Waiting thus in weariness She marked the nightingale Telling, if any one would heed, Its old complaining tale.
Those great drums beaten by the hands of Haabunai and Song of the Nightingale made one want to be a savage, to throw a spear, to dance in the moonlight.
The governor and the commissionaire, Ah Yu and Apporo, Monsieur Bapp with Song of the Nightingale and Flag, made the palace tremble while the thrum of the great drums maddened their blood.
Two sheep were huddled together by my trail window, the horses were lying down in the brush, and a nightingale lilted a gay love song in the cocoanut-palms above the House of the Golden Bed.
At Bauda's order, the gendarme and Song of the Nightingaledismissed the visitors, put McHenry to sleep under a tree, and escorted the new executive and me to Bauda's home on the beach.
Soon the demijohn of rum had been emptied into the glasses passing from hand to hand in the garden; Haabunai and Song of the Nightingale again evoked the thrumming beat of the great drums, and the dance began.
Only, in the universal stillness, the nightingale sang the song of songs, and bound the angel of love with the chains of her linked melody and made him captive in bonds stronger than his own.
The nightingalewas singing on that night," continued Kafka.
She was born amid the perfume of the roses, under the starlight, when the nightingale was singing.
The Nightingale A Conversation Poem, written in April, 1798 S.
And she hath watched Many a nightingale perch giddily On blossomy twig still swinging from the breeze, And to that motion tune his wanton song 85 Like tipsy Joy that reels with tossing head.
Fair Primrose haunts the shadow With children of the Spring, Till in the bloomy woodland The nightingale will sing.
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.
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