Citations:whip-o-will

English citations of whip-o-will

• 1791 August, A. E. Bleecker, “An Evening Prospect”, in The New-York Magazine, volume 2, number 8, →OCLC, page 476:

  Now the whip-o-will beginning, / Clam'rous on a pointed rail, / Drowns the more melodious singing / Of the cat-bird, thrush, and quail.

• 1838, John Lee Comstock, Youth's Book of Natural Philosophy, Hartford: Reed & Barber, →OCLC, page 183:

  Some will also imitate the warbling of the nightingale, the loud tones of the whip-o-will, and the scream of the peacock, with equal truth and facility.

• 1897 [1868], Mary M. B. Yates, “Silver Hour”, in Ideals of the Immanent Love, Los Angeles: Commercial Printing House, →OCLC, page 11:

  The whip-o-wills resume their chant / And wake the dreaming night— / Sweet melancholy sounds that haunt / The woods with sad delight.

• 1915, Elizabeth Cooper, Living Up to Billy, New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., →OCLC, page 190:

  […] after supper we will set on the porch and listen to the frogs and the whip-o-wills and see the shadows come on the lake, and feel that everything is all right.

• 2015, F. C. Appelhanz, “A Passing”, in Valley View Farm, Charleston, SC: CreateSpace, →ISBN, page 33:

  Wrens sing / in harmonious song / while whip-o-wills trill / in a far off meadow.