...thickets overgrown with brush and underwood ; there, in the calm of a summer's evening, he delights to " Warble his delicious notes, As he were fearful that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth his love chant." Bechstein says, that the Nightingale has a strong predilection...

...expression of religious sympathy with the beauty in which the night is steeped. Not silent long. " 'Tis the Nightingale, That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes; • •••••• far and near, In wood and thicket, over the wide grove, They answer and provoke...

...my sister ! we have learn'd A different lore: we may not thus profane Nature's sweet voices, always full of love And joyance! 'Tis the merry Nightingale...fearful that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburden his full soul Of all its music ! Farewell, O Warbler...

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...voice. A great poet and observer of nature, in our times, has gone into a more subtle character of— the merry nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and...precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes. . . . Far and near, In wood and thicket, over the wide grove, They answer and provoke each other's...

...different lore : we may not thus profane Nature's sweet voices, always full of love And joyance ! "Pis the merry nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and...fearful that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music ! And I know a grove...

...we shall find A pleasure in the dimness of the stars. And hark? the nightingale begins its song. He crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick...fearful, that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music ! 1 know a grove 5-12...

...reverse of melancholy. " A melancholy bird ? Oh ! idle thought ! In nature there is nothing melancholy. 'Tis the merry nightingale That crowds, and hurries,...fearful that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music." 90 He had a great...

...always full of love Andjoyance! "Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and rirecipitates With fast thick warble his delicious" notes, As he were fearful that an April night 5 Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburden his full soul Of all its...

...friend's sister ! we have learnt A different lore : we may not thus profane Nature's sweet voices always full of love And joyance ! 'Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds, and buries, and precipitates, With fast thick warble, his delicious notes, As he were fearful that an April...