"Last night the nightingale woke me, Last night, when all was still. It sang in the golden moonlight, From out the woo…"

"Hark! ah, the nightingale— The tawny-throated! Hark from that moonlit cedar what a burst! What triumph! hark!—what pa…"

"Birds of the wilderness! Ye woodland choristers of many dyes! Wake ye not in the night at my distress, Poured forth m…"

"As it fell upon a day In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made, Beasts di…"

"It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard; It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet…"

"The holy nightingale Winds up his long, long shakes of ecstasy, With notes that seem but the protracted sounds Of gla…"

"For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light."

""Most musical, most melancholy" bird! A melancholy bird! Oh! idle thought! In nature there is nothing melancholy."

"'Tis the merry nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes, As …"

"I have heard the nightingale herself."