 | Sharon Achinstein - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 330 pages
...Book Three of Paradise Lost, likewise sympathizes with that creature of darkness, the nightingale: "Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move/ Harmonious...in shadiest Covert hid/ Tunes her nocturnal Note" (PL, 3:37-40), evoking the traditional figure of song, but also laying claim to a poetics of darkness.... | |
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - Poetry - 2003 - 388 pages
...Conti says (Mythologiae VII, vi), chose long old age and blindness rather than a short and happy life. Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful Bird Sings darkling,...Covert hid Tunes her nocturnal Note. Thus with the Year 40 Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of Ev'n or Morn, Or sight of vernal... | |
 | Neil Forsyth - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 398 pages
...is the nightingale, whose song has already been Milton's figure for his own inspiration at 3.38-40: "as the wakeful Bird / Sings darkling, and in shadiest Covert hid / Tunes her nocturnal Note". Roy Flannagan (RM, n. 21, p. 417) has a full and fine note on the nightingale, showing that the bird... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - Poetry - 2007 - 778 pages
...and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias and Phineus Prophets old. Then feed on thoughts, that voluntarie move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful Bird Sings...with the Year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of Ev'n or Morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or Summers Rose, Or flocks, or... | |
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Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. 
