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Philomel
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Philomel
PHI'LOMEL
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philomel
philomel
English
Noun
philomel (plural philomels)
- (poetic) The nightingale.
- Shakespeare, Sonnet CII
- As Philomel in summer's front doth sing.
- Anne Finch, A Nocturnal Reverie
- And lonely Philomel, still waking, sings.
- Sir Walter Raleigh, The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
- And Philomel becometh dumb.
- Shakespeare, Sonnet CII