dove,

  And white throat, whiter than the silvered dove,

Collected Poems 2003

'If to your window there should come a white dove,

Mexico Michener, James 1992

And thinks who would praise the soft song of the dove,

Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet" J. L. Cherry

Sweet is the fragrance of flowers, and soft are the wings of the dove,

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, April 30, 1892 Various

Then the wife, with moan of anguish, like complaint of stricken dove,

The Poetical Works of Mrs. Leprohon

He smiled subduedly, telling, in tones soft as voice of the dove,

Georgian Poetry 1916-17 Edited by Sir Edward Howard Marsh Various 1912

I CHARGE you, O winds of the West, O winds with the wings of the dove,

From "A Love-Trilogy" 1895

"No use my singing to them of the Kingdom of Heaven," thought the dove,

In Midsummer Days, and Other Tales August Strindberg 1880

They'd give all they possessed for the wings ov a dove,

Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect John Hartley 1877

And at springtide, when the apple-blossoms brush the burnished bosom of the dove,

Ballad of Reading Gaol Oscar Wilde 1877