Famous quotes containing the words nightingale and/or wrote:
“I envy no mans nightingale or spring;
Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme,
Who plainly say, My God, My King.”
—George Herbert (15931633)
“I loved, but woman fell away;
I hid me from her faded fame.
I snatched the suns eternal ray
And wrote till earth was but a name.”
—John Clare (17931864)