At the end of the myth, all three turn into birds — Procne, a swallow ; Philomela, a nightingale ; and Tereus, a hoopoe.

When Tereus learned what she had done, he tried to kill the sisters but all three were changed by the Olympian Gods into birds: Tereus became a hoopoe ; Philomela became the nightingale whose song is a song of mourning for the loss of innocence ; Procne became the swallow.

Its land abounds in all the beauties of nature ; its climate is salubrious and temperate, neither too warm nor too cold ; it is a region of perpetual spring: there, in shady bowers, the nightingale ever sings ; there the fawn and antelope incessantly wander among the valleys ; every spot, throughout the whole year, is embellished and perfumed with flowers ; the very brooks of that country seem to be rivulets of rose water, so much does this exquisite fragrance delight the soul.

The contrast between the immortal nightingale and mortal man, sitting in his garden, is made all the more acute by an effort of the imagination.

Among the most notable are La Voix du rossignol ( The Voice of the Nightingale ) ( 1923 ), a hand-tinted film ( some sources say Prizmacolor ) starring the young " Nina Starr " ( Janina Starevich ) and the naturalistic nightingale who convinces her to free him, and Fétiche Mascotte ( Duffy the Mascot, aka The Mascot, aka Puppet Love, aka The Devil's Ball ) ( 1934 ), a long and strange story about a loving dog puppet who practically goes through Hell to get an orange to a girl dying of scurvy, selected by Terry Gilliam as one of the ten best animated films of all time.

However the nightingale, being the first bird of spring, in Europe, sings happily all the time, during the lovely seasons of spring and summer.

A scant half mile away Shelley and Mary were doubtless sitting on their diminutive terrace, the air about them scented with stock, and listening to the nightingale who had nested in the big lime tree at the foot of the garden.

Nightingales and Bombers took its title from a World War II naturalist's recording of a nightingale singing in a garden as warplanes flew overhead ; the recording appears in a track on the album.

: In the garden of thy heart plant naught but the rose of love, and from the nightingale of affection and desire loosen not thy hold.

In the French song " Rossignolet du bois ", accompanied only by the clarinet at first but later by the harp and crotales, a nightingale advises an inquiring lover to sing his serenades two hours after midnight, and identifies the " apples " in his garden as the moon and the sun.

Homer evokes the Nightingale in the Odyssey, suggesting the myth of Philomela and Procne ( one of whom, depending on the myth's version, is turned into a nightingale ).

During World War I, Barrès was one of the proponents of the Union sacrée, which earned him the nickname " nightingale of bloodshed " (" rossignol des carnages ").

According to Keats ' friend Brown, Keats finished the Ode in just one morning: " In the spring of 1819 a nightingale had built her nest near my house.

In the Odyssey, however, Zethus's wife is called a daughter of Pandareus in book 19, who killed her son Itylos in a fit of madness and became a nightingale.

Zeus relieved her grief by changing her into a nightingale, whose melancholy tunes are represented by the poet as Aëdon's lamentations about her child.

Aëdon now took pity upon the sufferings of her husband, and when her relations were on the point of killing her for this weakness, Zeus changed Polytechnos into a pelican, the brother of Aëdon into a whoop, her father into a sea-eagle, Chelidonis into a swallow, and Aëdon herself into a nightingale.

Zeus relieved her grief by changing her into a nightingale, whose melancholy tunes are represented by the poet as Aëdon's lamentations about her child.

In pity, the gods turned her into a nightingale, which cries with sadness every night.

In an explanatory scholium on this passage, an anonymous scholiast, echoed by Eustathius, explains that Aedon attempted to kill the son of her sister-in-law and rival, Niobe, but accidentally killed her own son instead: thus, the gods changed her into a nightingale to weep for eternity.

Attic authors later than Homer, including the dramatists knew a nightingale myth in which Procne was married to Tereus, who betrayed her by violating her sister Philomela, whose tongue he cut out so that she could not tell.

Symbolically, Philomela is associated with the nightingale, a bird known for its song and her depiction in creative works is of being transformed into a nightingale — even though in nature, only the male nightingale sings.

In Aeschylus's Agamemnon, the prophetess Cassandra has a visionary premonition of her own death in which she mentioned the nightingale and Itys.

A nightingale overhears a student complaining that his professor's daughter will not dance with him, as he is unable to give her a red rose.

In Japanese architecture there is a type of floor known as " uguisubari ", which is generally translated into English as " nightingale floor ".

The absence of nightingales in Otford is also ascribed to Becket, who is said to have been so disturbed in his devotions by the song of a nightingale that he commanded that none should sing in the town ever again.

Nijō Castle in Kyoto is constructed with long " nightingale " floors, which rested on metal hinges ( uguisu-bari ) specifically designed to squeak loudly when walked over.

* The love of the nightingale for the rose is widely used, often metaphorically, in Persian literature.

* A nightingale is depicted on the reverse of the Croatian 1 kuna coin, minted since 1993.

* A recording of nightingale song is included, as directed by the score, in " The Pines of Janiculum ", the third movement of Ottorino Respighi's 1924 symphonic poem " Pines of Rome " ( Pini di Roma ).

The names " Procne " and " Philomela " are sometimes used in literature to refer to the nightingale, though only the latter is mythologically correct.

And drunk with joy is the nightingale —

Almost adjacent to the pond is nightingale Wood.

The only Bulbul which occurs in Europe was spotted in the Cyclades and bears a yellow patch, being otherwise of a snuffy brown and this is possibly the bird which has got mixed up with the nightingale in Sufi, particularly Persian Sufi, poetry.

Another well-known example is Heinrich Ignaz Biber's Sonata representativa ( for violin and continuo ), which depicts various animals ( the nightingale, the cuckoo, the cat ) in a humoristic manner.

* Itys: The tragically short-lived son of Tereus and Procne, his name is used by the hoopoe when summoning the nightingale ( line 212 ).

The Chenar leaf ( plane tree leaf ), apple and cherry blossoms, the rose and tulip, the almond and pear, the nightingale — these are done in deep mellow tones of maroon, dark red, gold yellow and browns.

the nightingale ( بلبل bülbül ) — the rose ( ﮔل gül )

* the nightingale ( بلبل bülbül ) — the rose ( ﮔل gül )

Thus, the pairing of " the nightingale " and " the rose " simultaneously suggests two different relationships:

* the relationship between the fervent lover (" the nightingale ") and the inconstant beloved (" the rose ")

" The nightingale ", or suffering lover, is often seen as situated — both literally and figuratively — in " the world ", while " the rose ", or beloved, is seen as being in " the rosegarden ".

Here, the nightingale is only implied ( as being the poet / lover ), while the rose, or beloved, is shown to be capable of inflicting pain with its thorns ( خار hâr ).

* the nightingale ( بلبل bülbül ) — the rose ( ﮔل gül )

Thus, the pairing of " the nightingale " and " the rose " simultaneously suggests two different relationships:

* the relationship between the fervent lover (" the nightingale ") and the inconstant beloved (" the rose ")

" The nightingale ", or suffering lover, is often seen as situated — both literally and figuratively — in " the world ", while " the rose ", or beloved, is seen as being in " the rosegarden ".

Here, the nightingale is only implied ( as being the poet / lover ), while the rose, or beloved, is shown to be capable of inflicting pain with its thorns ( خار hâr ).