nightingale,

And if so be that he cannot avoid it, as a nightingale,

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

To this is opposed the mention of the nightingale,

The Life of Oliver Goldsmith 2004

To keep sleepless with song the aroused nightingale,

Lucile Owen Meredith 1861

Though verse flowed as naturally from his pen as music from the throat of the nightingale,

The Life of John Clare Frederick Martin 1856

MR. CUTHBERT BEDE gives, in his list of epithets of the nightingale,

Notes and Queries, Number 196, July 30, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various 1852

To this is opposed the mention of the nightingale,

Oliver Goldsmith Irving, Washington 1849

To this is opposed the mention of the nightingale,

Oliver Goldsmith A Biography Washington Irving 1821

So don’t go straining your voice, old nightingale,

Krindlesyke Wilfrid Wilson Gibson 1920

"Come in haste this dusk; I have become your nightingale,

The Garden of Bright Waters One Hundred and Twenty Asiatic Love Poems Edward Powys Mathers 1915