The Nightingale Ring

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That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, Keats writes to his nightingale, singest of summer in full-throated ease, one of English poetry's most rapturous odes to a bird nobody c ould actually see, only hear. This ring carries that same suggestion rather than a literal likeness: a bird in flight, engraved in low relief across a wide oval face, rising above a blossoming branch worked into the gold beside it.The shoulders taper into leaf shapes rather than a plain band, so the whole ring reads as one continuous scene rather than a stone set into metal. It sits large and confident on the hand, more signet than delicate stacker.Wear it for the days you would rather listen than speak. Show more