Symbols - What does heaven look like
Nightingale
The nightingale conforms to all bird symbolism. But a nightingale has a beautiful and varied song, as such it is symbolic of those who are able to sing spells and who have a command of the songlines of the universe. This symbolism derives from the fact that the nightingale is probably the most most lyrical of all birds and may have 300 different love songs. In effect, a nightingale is symbolically a very gifted person spiritually.
In some cases the nightingale represents the spiritual person practising Love with visualisation. This symbolism derives from the fact that a nighingale will sing for its 'mate' [love] all through the night
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Observations
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- Arnold, Matthew - To Margeurite
- Attar, Fariduddin - The Song of the Nightingale
- Bailey, Philip James - Lovers
- Bridges, Robert - Nightingales
- Clare, John - Sing on sweet bird; may no worse hap befall
- Engel, C - Musical Myths and Facts - Birdsong
- Hafez of Shiraz - Thirty Poems - At dawn I came into the garden
- Hafez of Shiraz - Thirty Poems - I went into the garden at dawn
- Heine, Heinrich - And with love's slight subtle meshes
- Heine, Heinrich - It is the fairy forest old
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - The Weather
- Jami - SALÁMÁN AND ABSÁL – from 05 The Story
- Jami - The Nightingale
- Keats, John - Ode on the Poets - Bards of passion and of mirth
- Keats, John - Ode to a Nightingale
- Khusrau, Amir - Ghazal 1
- Khusrau, Amir - Ghazal 1836
- Mare, Walter de la - Sotto voce [To Edward Thomas]
- Miro - The Nightingale's Song at Midnight and the Morning Rain
- Nizami – Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries) – from On the honour and dignity of this book 01
- Nizami – Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries) – from Poets and Poetry 01
- Rumi - Rubaiyat - Be motivated by the falcon
- Rumi - The Book of Love - I don’t mind if my companions
- Sweeney Todd - Green Finch and Linnet Bird
- Symonds, John Addington - The Singer
- Tennyson, Alfred Lord - The Vision of Sin - Then methought I heard a mellow sound
- Verlaine, Paul - En sourdine
- Yassawi - 16 from HIKMET 49
- Yassawi - 17 from HIKMET 64
- Yassawi - 19 from HIKMET 72 & 73
- Yassawi - 25 HIKMET 128