cicala

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—With thee to lead me, O Day of mine, Down the grass path gray with dew,210 Under the pine-wood, blind with boughs, Where the swallow never flew Nor yet cicala dared carouse— No, dared carouse!

From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Reynolds, Myra

Till 1884 this was allowed to stand:—   The lizard, with his shadow on the stone,   Rests like a shadow, and the cicala sleeps.

From The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Collins, John Churton

A cicala in the grass outside began his evening note of challenge.

From The Outcaste by Penny, F. E.

You are to hear a voice that puts to silence all others, as the trumpet the flute, as the cicala the bee, as the choir the tuning-fork.

From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 by Fowler, F. G. (Francis George)

What would the dry cicala know of noontide?

From Life Immovable First Part by Phoutrides, Aristides E. (Aristides Evangelus)