(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._ Planche.
_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.
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_Luscious lays._ Warton.
_Sadly sweet._ Potter.
_Varied strains._ Pope.
_Thick-warbled notes._ Milton.