Oh, to the Nightingale!
Almost all of these great authors and artists included the Nightingale in their works. John Keats wrote “Ode to the Nightingale,” and Homer evokes the Nightingale in the “Odyssey.”
Poetry
Robert of Lincoln
“Robert of Lincoln,” by William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), is one of the finest bird poems ever written. He describes the life of the Bobolink.