Nightingales
Evening melody makers
Nightingales is the plural of nightingale, a small European songbird celebrated for its powerful, melodious song, which males perform at night during breeding season.
The bird's nocturnal singing made it a symbol of poetic inspiration and romantic longing: The nightingales sang in the garden until dawn.
Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, took her surname from the bird.
Vocal music-making
- melodiousAgreeable in sound
- trillingRapid note alternation
- nocturnalActive during darkness
- warblingSinging with quavers
song · perch · migratory · woodland · hedgerow · thicket · dawn chorus · territorial
English Romantic poet
- odeLaudatory verse form
- romanticConducive to love
- poetryMetrical literary composition
- symbolRepresentational mark or sign
muse · melancholy · beauty · Shakespeare · T.S. Eliot · Oscar Wilde · Hans Christian Andersen · Persian poetry
Medical caretaking profession
- CrimeanOf a Ukrainian peninsula
- lampElectric light fixture
- pioneerEarly explorer or settler
- sanitationCleanliness for public health
hospital · wounded · care · statistics · reform · hygiene · compassion · Victorian
singing
Vocal music-making
warbling · song · perch · migratory · woodland · hedgerow · thicket · dawn chorus · territorial · mating call
Keats
English Romantic poet
symbol · muse · melancholy · beauty · Shakespeare · T.S. Eliot · Oscar Wilde · Hans Christian Andersen · Persian poetry · Rumi
nursing
Medical caretaking profession
sanitation · hospital · wounded · care · statistics · reform · hygiene · compassion · Victorian · medical
myth
Traditional explanatory tale
- legendUnverified traditional tale
- transformationThorough change in form
- OvidAncient Roman poet
metamorphosis · Greek · tragedy · lament · sorrow · voice · tale · ancient · symbolic · weeping