Potential Titles: Nightingales

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Woe to the nightingale singing in the mill - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXV: Woes" transl. by J.W. Wiles

Swans and nightingales rehearse - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

A homeless, wandering nightingale - Giosue Carducci "On My Daughter's Marriage" transl. by Frank Sewall

The nightingale pours forth her secret boon - Giosue Carducci "Virgil" transl. by Frank Sewall

Nightingale with note of fire - Willa Cather "Arcadian Winter"

Never the nightingale - Adelaide Crapsey "Dirge"

The nightingales poured in starry songs - John Davidson "Down-a-down"

Nightingales wasted their passion on my sleep - William H. Davies "Wasted Hours"

Seek the woods, the nightingale, and moon - William H. Davies "Wasted Hours"

Under the cypresses no nightingales - Mitchell Dawson "Poems: Under the Cypresses"

Though the nightingale may grieve - Louis Golding "Skylark Noon"

Nightingales hold the wood - Lionel Johnson "Bagley Wood"

Roused by the nightingales - Joseph O. Legaspi "Someone"

The nightingale in his most passionate mood - Amy Lowell "Teatro Bambino. Dublin, N. H."

For the bread of nightingale children - Pablo Neruda "Come with Me" transl. by Teresa Anderson

Mad nightingales of joy - Alfred Noyes "Linnaeus"

And though the nightingale had just begun - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "The Dahlia, the Rose, and the Heliotrope"

Nightingale with her ecstatic pain transfixed - John Presland "The Deluge"

Nightingales crashing their voices through - Fasasi Ridwan "Reliving: Post Trauma of the Lekki Tollgate Massacre"

Meadow-lark no less than nightingale - James Whitcombe Riley "Three Singing Friends"

A love-lorn nightingale among owls - Rumi "Thou Didst Go to the Rose-Garden" transl. by R.A. Nicholson

The nightingale’s complaint - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Indian Serenade"

The bitter wind has banished the silent nightingale - Richard Henry Stoddard "A Winter Scene"

With their nightingales and psalms - Dylan Thomas "In my craft or sullen art"

Lure the nightingale to sing - Helen Hay Whitney "How we would Live!"


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