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The Nightingale Near the House

Here is the soundless cypress on the lawn : It listens, listens. Taller trees beyond Listen. The moon at the unruffled pond Stares. And you sing, you sing. That star-enchanted song falls through the air From lawn to lawn down terraces of sound, Darts in white arrows on the shadowed ground ; While all the night you sing. My dreams are flowers to which you are a bee, As all night long I listen, and my brain Receives your song, then loses it again In moonlight on the lawn. Now is your voice a marble high and white, Then like a mist on fields of paradise ; Now is a raging fire, then is like ice, Then breaks, and it is dawn.

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Yone Noguchi

Hokku 71

The nightingales under the boughs, Sighing now white, now red, Sing a pearl song Over the greyness of earth.

Lewis Alexander

Japanese Hokku 11

If you had not sung Then what would I imitate, Happy nightingale?

Dhan Gopal Mukerji

Nisha

I fell asleep, Hearing melody That fell from lip to lip. The stars sang it To the wind, that took it To the rose, shivering in the cold of night. The rose gave it To the nightingale, who sang it Back to the stars, the earth and the sea. And I, to it listening, Fell asleep dreaming.

Amy Lowell

Desolation

Under the plum-blossoms are nightingales ; But the sea is hidden in an egg-white mist, And they are silent.

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