POETICAL EPITHETS OF THE NIGHTINGALE.
(Vol. vii., p. 397.; Vol. viii., p. 112.)
To the one hundred and ten epithets poetically applied to the nightingale and its song, collected by Mr. Bede, permit me to add sixty-five more.
Azure-crested. Cowper.
Bewailing. Drummond.
Chaunting. Skelton.
Chaste poet. Grainger.
Dappled. Anon.[[2]]
Darling. Carey.
Daulian minstrel. Herrick.
Delightful. Shelley.
Dusky-brown. Trench.
Early. C. Smith.
Elegiac. Dibdin.
Enamoured. Shelley.
Fabled. Byron.
Fair. Smart.
Greeful.[[3]] Lodge.
Gurgling. Lloyd.
Hallow'd. Moore.
Hundred-throated. Tennyson.
Invisible. Hurdis.
Lesbian. Bromley.
Love-learned. Thomson.
Love-sick. Warton.
Loud-complaining. Gibbons.
Lulling. Anon.[[4]]
Lute-tongued. Anon.[[5]]
Mellow. Strangford.
Midnight minstrel. Logan.
Moody. Hurdis.
Nightly. Bidlake.
Pandionian. Drummond.
Panged. Hood.
Pitiful. Herrick.
Plaintful. Drummond.
Quavering. Poole.
Querulous. Kennedy.
Rapturous. Southey.
Rural. Dryden.
Sable.[[6]] Drummond.
Sadly-pleasing.[[7]] Anon.
Secret. Shelley.
Sely. Chaucer.
Sequestered. J. Montgomery.
Shy. Dallas.
Silver-tuned. Carey.
Simple. Derrick.
Sobbing. Planché.
Soft-tuned. Whaley.
Solitary. Bowring.
Sorrow-soothing. Shaw.
Sprightly. Elton.
Sweet-breasted. Beaumont and Fletcher.
Sweet-tongued. Anon.[[8]]
Sylvan syren. Pattison.
Tearful. Potter.
Tenderest. Wiffen.
Thracian. Lewis.
Transporting. Hurdis.
Unadorned. Hurdis.
Unhappy. Croxall.
Watchful. Philips.
Witching. Proctor.
Woodland. Smith.
Wretched. Shirley.
Wronged. P. Fletcher.
Yearly. Drayton.
Young. Lewis.
The character of the mere song alone has been described in the following terms:
Melodious lay. Potter.
Lofty song. Yalden.
A storm of sound. Shelley.
Impressive lay. Merry.
Swelling slow. Kirk White.
Tremulously slow. C. Smith.
Wild melody. Shelley.
Thick melodious note. Lloyd.
Hymn of lore. Logan.
Melting lay. Henley.
Harmonious woe. Pomfret.
Well-tuned warble. Shakspeare.
Luscious lays. Warton.
Sadly sweet. Potter.
Varied strains. Pope.
Thick-warbled notes. Milton.
W. Pinkerton.
Ham.
Footnote 2:[(return)]
Blackwood's Mag., Jan. 1838.
"I regard the prettie, greeful bard
With tearfull, yet delightfull, notes complaine."—Heliconia.
Lays of the Minnesingers.
Weekly Visitor, July, 1835.
"Night's sable birds, which plain when others sleep."—Thaumantia.
Evening Elegy.—Poetical Calendar.
Harleian Miscellany, vol. viii.