LARK

Related Subject: Birds

1. The music soars within the little lark,
   And the lark soars.—ELIZABETH B. BROWNING, Aurora Leigh
   

2. The busy lark, the messenger of day.—CHAUCER, The Knightes Tale
   

3. The lark now leaves his wat'ry nest
   And, climbing, shakes his dewy wings.—SIR WILLIAM D'AVENANT, Who Look for Day

4. When the sky falleth we shall have Larks.—Proverb
   

5. It were better to hear the lark sing, than the mouse cheep.—Proverb
   

6. Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings,
   And Phoebus 'gins arise.—SHAKESPEARE, Cymbeline
   

7. Merry larks are ploughmen's clocks.—SHAKESPEARE, Love's Labour's Lost
   

8. It was the lark, the herald of the morn.—SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet
   

9. It is the lark that sings so out of tune,
   Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps.—SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet
   

10. Lo! here the gentle lark, weary of rest,
    From his moist cabinet mounts up on high
    And wakes the morning.—SHAKESPEARE, Venus and Adonis
    

11. Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!—
    Bird thou never wert!—
    That from Heaven, or near it,
    Pourest thy full heart
    In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.—SHELLEY, To a Skylark