 | 1859 - 890 pages
...numberless passages, of which we must permit ourselves to select ouly two : — "To THE SKYLARK. " Ethereal minstrel, pilgrim of the sky ! Dost thou...Those quivering wings composed, that music still. Leave to the nightingale her shady wood, A privacy of glorious light is thine ; Whence thou dost pour... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1859 - 720 pages
...egress, thus endeavoring to secure a continuance of the shelter previously supplied by the long grass." " Ethereal minstrel ! pilgrim of the sky ! Dost thou despise the earth, where cares abound ? Or, while thy wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest, upon the dewy ground ? Thy nest, which thou... | |
 | Advanced reading book - 1860 - 458 pages
...brake to bush ; But she (God love her !) fear'd to brush The dust from off its wings. To A SKYLARK. i. ETHEREAL minstrel ! pilgrim of the sky ! Dost thou...will, Those quivering wings composed, that music still ! ii. To the last point of vision, and beyond, Mount, daring warbler ! — that love-prompted strain... | |
 | William Allingham - 1860 - 316 pages
...dear, Adieu for ever now. T. CABLYLE. TO A SKY-LARK. i. TT< THEREAL minstrel ! pilgrim of the sky ! Itj Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound ? Or,...will, Those quivering wings composed, that music still ! ii. To the last point of vision, and beyond, Mount, daring warbler ! — that love-prompted strain... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 pages
...hawk ; Think of this, and rise with day Gentle lords and ladies gay ! CCXL Sir W. Scott TO THE SKYLARK Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky ! Dost thou...will, Those quivering wings composed, that music still ! To the last point of vision, and beyond —Twixt thee and thine a never-failing bond— Mount, daring... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...harmonious madness From my lips would flow, The world should listen then, as I am listening now. SHELLEY. ETHEREAL minstrel ! pilgrim of the sky ! Dost thou...will, Those quivering wings composed, that music still ! Leave to the nightingale her shady wood, A privacy of glorious light is thine ; Whence thou dost... | |
 | 1890 - 366 pages
...hawk ; Think of this, and rise with day Gentle lords and ladies gay ! Sir W. Scott CCXL TO THE SKYLARK Ethereal minstrel ! pilgrim of the sky ! Dost thou...abound ? Or while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Roth with thy nest upon the dewy ground ? Thy nest which thou canst drop into at will, Those quivering... | |
 | William Martin - 1861 - 380 pages
...fields. Farewell, lark ! but ere I say farewell, let me, with my dear old friend Wordsworth, say — ^Ethereal minstrel ! Pilgrim of the sky ! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound ? Or while thy wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground — Thy nest which thou... | |
 | Anna Jane Buckland - 1861 - 176 pages
...and the voice of a child, who sat beneath a tree on the lawn, intent on its lesson, repeated, — " Ethereal minstrel ! pilgrim of the sky ! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound P Or while thy wings aspire, are heart and eye, Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground ? Thy nest... | |
 | 1863 - 982 pages
...lords and ladies gay ! Sir W. Scott CCXL TO THE SKYLARK T7 THEREAL minstrel ! pilgrim of the sky ! i ^ Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound ? Or...will, Those quivering wings composed, that music still ! To the last point of vision, and beyond, Mount, daring warbler ! — that love-prompted strain —... | |
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ETHEREAL minstrel ! pilgrim of the sky ! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound ? Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground? Thy nest which thou canst drop into at will, Those quivering wings composed,... 
