8 Metaphors for nightingales

The nightingale is my continuall clocke.

Florence Nightingale, too, might have been a softer and more human person.

Miss Alldridge, in an interesting sketch of Miss Nightingale, quotes the following story from Little Folks: "Some years ago, when the celebrated Florence Nightingale was a little girl, living at her father's home, a large, old Elizabethan house, with great woods about it, in Hampshire, there was one thing that struck everybody who knew her.

Florence Nightingale, born in 1820, in the beautiful Italian city of that name, is the younger of two daughters of William Shore Nightingale, a wealthy land-owner, who inherited both the name and fortune of his granduncle, Peter Nightingale.

The reason for calling the nightingale the sister of the spirit of Keats (Adonais) does not perhaps go beyond thisthat, as the nightingale is a supreme songster among birds, so was Keats a supreme songster among men.

In many of its tones the nightingale is only a bird; then it rises up above its class, and seems as if it would teach every feathered creature what singing really is.

Miss Alldridge, in an interesting sketch of Miss Nightingale, quotes the following story from Little Folks: "Some years ago, when the celebrated Florence Nightingale was a little girl, living at her father's home, a large, old Elizabethan house, with great woods about it, in Hampshire, there was one thing that struck everybody who knew her.

"These Nightingales will in due time become ringdoves," sneered Punch.

8 Metaphors for  nightingales