Bird Quote by John Milton

Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song.

— John Milton

Once more their weird laughter of the loons comes to my ear, the distance lends it a musical, melancholy sound. For a dangerous ledge…

— Celia Thaxter

When on a summer's morn I wake, And open my two eyes, Out to the clear, born-singing rills My bird-like spirit flies. To hear…

— W. H. Davies

Under the greenwood tree, Who loves to lie with me And tune his merry note, Unto the sweet bird's throat; Come hither, come hither,…

— William Shakespeare

And the Sabbath bell, That over wood and wild and mountain dell Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy With sounds most musical, most…

— Samuel Rogers

Go! you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away! There 's such a charm in melancholy I would not…

— Samuel Rogers

Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly! There's naught in this life sweet But only…

— John Fletcher

Come, let us give a little time to folly... and even in a melancholy day let us find time for an hour of pleasure.

— Bonaventure

And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness.

— John Milton

Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy.

— John Milton

In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors.

— John Milton