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, as its "_Hymn_ of gratitude and love;" and by Moore also, in his account of the Vale of Cashmere, as "The nightingale's _hymn_ from the Isle of Chenars." In _A Proper New Boke of the Armony of Byrdes_ (quoted by Dibdin, _Top. Antiq._, iv. 381.), of unknown date, though probably before 1580, the nightingale is represented as singing its Te Deum: "Tibi Cherubin Et Seraphin Full goodly she dyd chaunt, With notes merely Incessabile Voce Proeclamant."]