, Mrs. Hemans, Mrs Fanny Kemble,
Hood, T. L. Beddoes.
_Shrill._ Chaucer, Crashaw.
_Silver-sounding._ Richard Barnfield.
_Single._[3] Southey.
_Skilled._ Ford.
_Sleepless._[4] Atherstone.
_Sober-suited._ Thomson.
_Soft._ Milton, James I. Scot., Crashaw, Mrs. Charlotte Smith, Byron.
_Solemn._ Milton, Otway, Graingle.
_Sole-sitting._ Thomson.
_Sorrowing._ Shakspeare.
_Soul-entrancing._ Bishop Heber.
_Supple._ Crashaw.
_Sweet._ Chaucer, James I. Scot., Milton, Spenser, Crashaw, Drummond,
Richard Barnfield, Ambrose Philips, Shelley, Cowper, Thomson,
Young, Darwin, Lord Lyttelton, Mrs. Charlotte Smith, Moore,
Coleridge, Wordsworth, L. E. L., Milman, Hood, Tennyson, P. J.
Bailey, Kenny, Hon. J. Fane.
_Sweetest._ Milton, Browne, Thomson, Turnbull, Beattie.
_Sweet-voiced._ Wither.
_Syren._ Crashaw.
_Tawny._ Cary.
_Tender._ Crashaw, Turnbull.
_Thrilling._ Hon. Mrs. Wrottesley (1847).
_Tuneful._ Dyer, Grainger.
_Unseen._ Byron.
_Vaunting._ Bloomfield.
_Voluptuous._ Shelley.
_Wakeful._ Milton, Coleridge.
_Wailing._ Miss Landon.
_Wandering._ Mrs. Charlotte Smith, Hon. Mrs. Wrottesley.
_Wanton._ Coleridge.
_Warbling._ Milton, Ford, Chris. Smart, Pope, Smollett, Lord
Lyttelton, Jos. Warton, Gray, Cowper.
_Welcome._ Wordsworth.
_Wild._ Moore, Tennyson, J. Westwood (1840).
_Wise._ Waller.
_Wondrous_. Mrs. Fanny Kemble.

In addition to these 109 epithets, others might be added of a fuller
character; such as "Queen of all the quire" (Chaucer), "Night-music's
king" (Richard Barnfield, 1549), "Angel of the spring" (Ben Jonson),
"_Music's best seed-plot_" (Crashaw), "Best poet of the grove"
(Thomson), "Sweet poet of the woods" (Mrs. Charlotte Smith), "Dryad of
the trees" (Keats), "Sappho of the dell" (Hood); but the foregoing list
of simple adjectives (which doubtless could be greatly increased by a
more extended poetical reading) sufficiently demonstrates the popularity
of the nightingale as a poetical embellishment, and would, perhaps, tend
to prove that a greater diversity of epithets have been bestowed upon
the nightingale than have been given to any other song-bird.

CUTHBERT BEDE, B.A.

[Footnote 1: The epithets "heavenly," "holy," "solemn," &c., represent
the nightingale's song, as spoken of by Keats, as the bird's "plaintive
_anthem_;" by Mackay, a