wood-dove

It was but wave and sky and the familiar fowl of the lake, as coot, and mallard, and heron, and now and then a swift wood-dove going her ways from shore to shore; two gerfalcons she saw also, an osprey, and a great ern on his errand high up aloft.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

In the garden, in a thicket of lilac bushes, a wood-dove greeted her with its first morning warble ... and where she vanished, the milk-white sky flushed a soft pink.

Dream tales and prose poems 2006

Jennie was left alone, but, like the wood-dove, she was a voice of sweetness in the summertime.

Jennie Gerhardt 2004

You have heard the wood-dove calling in the lone stillness of the summertime; you have found the unheeded brooklet singing and babbling where no ear comes to hear.

Jennie Gerhardt 2004

And for him it was joy enough to look upon her full bright cheek, to see her compact little figure before him; but to touch her dimpled shoulder, to feel one tress of her hair against his face, was ecstasy; and her voice, -- the tenderest trill of the wood-dove was not half so delicious!

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 Various

The plaintive notes of the wood-dove found a response within Bessie's soul.

When Dreams Come True Ritter Brown

And while o'erhead the plaining wood-dove grieves,

The Path of Dreams Poems Leigh Gordon Giltner

Memories which music or the glories of the sunset, or the cooing of the wood-dove at eventide might awaken within the soul.

When Dreams Come True Ritter Brown

_He_ never puts a song in the throat of a jay or a wood-dove; _he_ never makes a mother-bird break out in bravuras; _he_ never puts a sickle into green grain, or a trout in a slimy brook; _he_ could picture no orchis growing on a hillside, or columbine nodding in a meadow.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 Various

Possibly She may love the eager haunts of men even more than She loves the silent haunt of the wood-dove and the great wide moors where the kite circles slowly.

Drolls From Shadowland