But not less beautiful than this is the whole broad plain of Lombardy; nor are the nightingales louder here than in the acacia trees around Pavia.
The songs of nightingales among acacia-trees, and the sharp scream of swallows wheeling in air, mingle with the monotonous chant that always rises from the country-people at their toil.
It stands in a green field, surrounded by acacias, where the nightingales sing ceaselessly in May.
Songs of cuckoos and nightingales echoed from the copses on the hillsides.
Doves coo among the branches of the pines, and nightingales pour their full-throated music all day and night from thickets of white-thorn and acacia.
As of yore, as of yore will the nightingales sing, Not less sweetly for one blossom cancell'd from Spring!
Pure colour and pure contour and pure grace Made the sweet marvel of her singing face; She was the very may-time that comes in When hawthorns bud and nightingales begin.
Both houses had pleasant gardens separated only by a green hedge, and close by, the spreading branches of fine old trees provided shelter for the many nightingales that built their nests in the quiet spot.
The nightingales were singing as he passed beneath the boughs, followed by Sor Teresa.
In the fruit-trees on the lower land the nightingales were singing as they only sing in Spain.
Where the stream runs there are bunches of waving bamboos, and at the lower end, where the wall is broken, there is a little grove of nut trees, where the nightingales sing.
Through the still night I heard the nightingales calling, calling, calling, until I could bear it no longer, and went softly out into the luminous dark.
I heard my little brothers who move by night rustling in grass and tree; and above and through it all the nightingales sang and sang and sang!
The legend tells that the nightingales singing in the trees distracted the hermit's prayers, so he besought that he might be relieved from this trial; and since that time the nightingales in the woods of Stowe have remained mute.
The next morning I was on the road to Martel, with nightingales and blackcaps singing all around from blossoming quince and hawthorn and copses filled with a gold-green glimmer, until I reached the bare upland country.
Here pinks with spices in their throats Nod by the bitter marigold; Here nightingales with haunting notes, When west and east with stars are bold, From out the twisted hawthorn-trees, Sing back the weathers old.
Let him listen to the voices of his night--the crickets that cry out his mortality and the nightingales that sing of Paradise!
Within every blade of grass are enshrined the mysteries of an inscrutable Wisdom, and upon every rose-bush a myriad nightingales pour out, in blissful rapture, their melody.
Release yourselves, O nightingales of God, from the thorns and brambles of wretchedness and misery, and wing your flight to the rose-garden of unfading splendor.
Whence come these European babblers of Tharsis--these nightingales of the market-place--these sugared confections of flowers?
The sound of the Neckar was soft and low, and nightingales were singing among the brown shadows of the woods.
And again the wind of the summer night passed through the old Castle, and the trees, and the nightingales recorded under the dark, shadowy leaves, and the heart of Flemming was full.
Yet you'll benightingales one day, And charm the country-side, When I'm away and far away And May is queen and bride.
A host of things I take on trust: I take The nightingales on trust, for few and far Between those actual summer moments are When I have heard what melody they make.
Because the season and mine age grow sere, Shall never Spring bring forth her daffodil, Shall never sweeter Summer feast her fill Of roses with the nightingales they hear?
There then shall we be in the garden, beholding how the hall-windows are yellow, and hearkening the sound of the hall-glee borne across the flowers and blending with the voice of the nightingales in the trees.
There in the ancient walnut-tree the owl sitteth breathing hard in the night-time; but thou shalt not hear him for the joy of the nightingales singing from the apple-trees of the close.
The nightingales had ceased, it was all quiet and a little oppressive.
The coloured radiance of leafy June, With choirs of song-birds perfected in art, And nightingales beneath the summer moon-- Praise!
Last night, just as I was lapsing into a preliminary doze, two vagrant nightingales undertook an opera that brought them to the large myrtle under my window, where I hoped they had reached the finale.
How in contrast with that charnel-house yonder vision of peaceful loveliness appears as incongruous as the nightingales which the soul of Sophocles heard singing in the grove of the Furies?
And it had always been in moon-lighted gardens that these imaginary scenes took place, with nightingales singing in rose vines and jessamine arbors.
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