"Bobolink" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "bobolink" and "raven" may affect us emotionally by the quality of their tone. Through association with the sounds of the human voice, heard under stress of various emotions, we attribute joyous or foreboding qualities to the bird's tone, and then transfer ...
— A Study of Poetry • Bliss Perry
... The bobolink sings in the meadow, The wren in the cherry-tree: Come hither, thou little maiden, And sit ...
— Poems • William D. Howells
... out of her slender throat came the swallow's twitter, the robin's whistle, the blue-jay's call, the thrush's song, the wood-dove's coo, and many another familiar note, all ending as before with the musical ecstacy of a bobolink singing and swinging among the meadow grass on a bright ...
— Eight Cousins • Louisa M. Alcott
... hop-pole took the likeness of a tall figure she had seen in the porch, the sage-bed, curiously enough, suggested a strawberry ditto, the lettuce vividly reminded her of certain vegetable productions a basket had brought, and the bobolink only sung in his cheeriest voice, "Go home, go home! ...
— A Modern Cinderella - or The Little Old Show and Other Stories • Louisa May Alcott
... your imagination in describing what you see is quite another. The new school of nature writers will afford many samples of the former method; read Thoreau's description of the wood thrush's song or the bobolink's song, or his account of wild apples, or of his life at Walden Pond, or almost any other bit of his writing, for a sample of the latter. In his best work he uses language in the imaginative way ...
— The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers • John Burroughs
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