Careful Words

dove (n.)

She dwelt among the untrodden ways

Beside the springs of Dove,—

A maid whom there were none to praise

And very few to love.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): She dwelt among the untrodden ways.

In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove;

In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.

Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892): Locksley Hall. Line 19.

  The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot.

Old Testament: Genesis viii. 9.

  I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove; I will roar you, an 't were any nightingale.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.

  Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is, more knave than fool.

Christopher Marlowe (1565-1593): The Jew of Malta. Act ii.

  Oh that I had wings like a dove!

Old Testament: Psalm lv. 6.

If you have writ your annals true, 't is there

That, like an eagle in a dove-cote, I

Flutter'd your Volscians in Corioli:

Alone I did it. Boy!

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Coriolanus. Act v. Sc. 6.