"Bird of night" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... traveller. Edwin was fatigued and faint. He tried to give vent to his complaints; but his tongue cleaved to the roof of his mouth: his spirits sunk within him. No sound now reached his ears but the baying of the shepherds dogs, and the drowsy tinklings of the distant folds. The owl, the solemn bird of night, sat buried among the branches of the aged oak, and with her melancholy hootings gave an additional serenity to the scene. At a small distance, on his right hand, he perceived a contiguous object that reflected the rays of the moon, through the willows and the hazels, ...
— Imogen - A Pastoral Romance • William Godwin
... compound forlorn: see note, l. 39. Milton makes frequent allusion to the nightingale: in Il Penseroso it is 'Philomel'; in Par. Reg. iv. 245, it is 'the Attic bird'; and in Par. Lost viii. 518, it is 'the amorous bird of night.' He calls it the Attic bird in allusion to the story of Philomela, the daughter of Pandion, King of Athens. Near the Academy was Colonus, which Sophocles has celebrated as the haunt of nightingales (Browne). ...
— Milton's Comus • John Milton
... he brought one day, Of plumage gray. "O bird of Night! Why comest thou?" Said she: "Seek no relief! My name ...
— Leaves of Life - For Daily Inspiration • Margaret Bird Steinmetz
... they: "Aglauros calls her sisters cowards weak; "The twistings with bold hand unloosening, sees "Within an infant, and a dragon stretch'd. "The deed I tell to Pallas, and from her "My service this remuneration finds: "Driven from her presence, she my place supplies "Of favorite with the gloomy bird of night. "All other birds my fate severe may warn, "To seek not danger by officious tales. "Pallas, perhaps you think, but lightly lov'd "One whom she thus so suddenly disgrac'd. "But ask of Pallas;—she, though much enrag'd "Will yet my truth confirm. A regal maid ...
— The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II • Ovid |
