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Bobolinks Quotes
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Out of the fragrant heart of bloom, The bobolinks are singing; Out of the fragrant heart of bloom The apple-tree whispers to the room, "Why art thou but a nest of gloom While the bobolinks are singing?" (Quote by - William Dean Howells)
Robert of Lincoln's Quaker wife, Pretty and quiet, with plain brown wings, Passing at home a patient life, Broods in the grass while her husband sings. (Quote by - William Cullen Bryant)
When Nature had made all her birds, With no more cares to think on, She gave a rippling laugh and out There flew a Bobolinkon. (Quote by - Christopher Pearce Cranch)
Modest and shy as a nun is she; One weak chirp is her only note; Braggarts and prince of braggarts is he, Pouring boasts from his little throat. (Quote by - William Cullen Bryant)
Some keep the Sabbath going to Church - I keep it, staying at Home - With a bobolink for a Chorister - And an Orchard, for a Dome. (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)
One day in the bluest of summer weather, Sketching under a whispering oak, I heard five bobolinks laughing together, Over some ornithological joke. (Quote by - Christopher Pearce Cranch)
The crack-brained bobolink courts his crazy mate, Poised on a bulrush tipsy with his weight. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Robert of Lincoln is gayly drest, Wearing a bright black wedding.White are his shoulders and white his crest. (Quote by - William Cullen Bryant, Robert of Lincoln)