Nightingale Poems

Nightingale Poems

Georgic IV, by Virgil

Of air-born honey, gift of heaven, I now
Tak...

Ebb and Flow, by Albert Laighton

I wandered alone beside the stream;
The tide ...

At San Giovanni Del Lago, by Alfred Austin

I I leaned upon the rustic bridge,
And watch...

A Woman's Apology, by Alfred Austin

In the green darkness of a summer wood,
Where...

The Dying Rose to the Nightingale, by Alice Williams Brotherton

What were the gifts of a thousand lovers
To th...

The Mower to the Glo-Worms, by Andrew Marvell

Ye living Lamps, by whose dear light
The Nigh...

The Nightingale, by Anna Katherine Green

And now soft night hath ta'en her seat on high,...

My Boyish Days, by C. B. Langston

My boyish days are long past now,
Time's sile...

A Cemetery in France, by Edwin Curran

Dawn takes the everlasting skies
And shoulders...

Winter Night, by Edwin Curran

The stars like bells flash down the silver sky,...

The Nightingale Heard by the Unsatisfied Heart, by Jean Ingelow

When in May-day hush
Chanteth the Missel-thrus...

Shudders of Flowers, by Jean Lahor

IN summer eves the flowers have languors of
Wo...

Young Mary, by John Imlah

Young Mary by the burn,
O lo'ed her o'er them...

In Memoriam: Florence Nightingale, by Joyce Kilmer

She whom we love, our Lady of Compassion,
Ca...

To the Birds, by Martha Lavinia Hoffman

O lark, whose joyous warbling comes
Across th...

At Dawn, by Maurice Browne

No wild-foot Dryad haunts this leafless glade
...

Lament for Bion, by Moschus

Ye mountain valleys, pitifully groan!
Rivers ...

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám, by Omar Khayyám

I

WAKE! For the Sun, who scatter'd into ...

The Nightingale, by Sara Coleridge

In April comes the Nightingale,
That sings wh...

Signs of Rain, by Sara Coleridge

THE Thrush has been silent for many a long day,...

Chorus from Ajax, by Sophocles

Fair Salamis, the billow's roar
Wanders aroun...

Electra's Song, by Sophocles

O holy light of day,
And air with earth comme...

Ask Me No More Where Jove Bestows, by Thomas Carew

Ask me no more where Jove bestows,
When June ...

Matin Song, by Thomas Heywood

Pack, clouds, away! And welcome, day!
With ...