nightingale-utterance

Updated: May 9, 2025

The subject of the poem itself was not new to him it was a story he had known from boyhood, ... an old Eastern love-legend, fantastically beautiful as many such legends are, full of grace and passionate fervor a theme fitted for the nightingale-utterance of a singer like the Persian Hafiz though even Hafiz would have found it difficult to match the exquisitely choice language and delicately ringing rhythm in which this quaint idyll of long past ages was now most perfectly set like a jewel in fine gold.

Marie Corelli - Ardath