cicala

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Late August or early September, the stunning cicala is shrill,35 And the bees keep their tiresome whine round the resinous firs on the hill.

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

The sound of the river and of the cicala is all the noise we hear.

From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) by Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir

He seemed to ask for nothing better than to stroll through orange groves, or lie under some spreading fig-tree, drowsily soothed by the song of the vine-dresser, or the unwearied chirp of the cicala.

From A Rent In A Cloud by Lever, Charles James

What would the dry cicala know of noontide?

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

Brown cicala drily proses,       Creaking the hot air to sleep,     Bounteous orange flowers and roses,       Yield the wealth of love they keep,   To the sun's imperious ardour in a dream of fragrance deep.

From What I Remember, Volume 2 by Trollope, Thomas Adolphus