 | American poetry - 1850 - 450 pages
...never gives ; But, though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly lives. TO A SKYLARK.—Wordsworth. ETHEREAL minstrel ! pilgrim of the sky ! Dost thou...will, Those quivering wings composed, that music still ! Yet might'st thou seem, proud privilege! to sing All independent of the leafy spring. Leave to the... | |
 | John Minter Morgan - 1850 - 480 pages
...have left you dwell, And the flowers are not Death's :—fare ye well! farewell! « TO A SKY-LARK. Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky!— Dost thou despise the earth where cares are bound? Or, while thy wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest, upon the dewy ground ?... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - 1851 - 242 pages
...Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky 1 Dost thou despise the earth, where cares abound ? Or, while thy wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest,...Thy nest, which thou canst drop into at will, Those qnivering wings composed, that music still. To the last point of vision, and beyond, Mount, daring... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1851 - 748 pages
...rebounds, beware,— Listen, ponder, hold them dear; For of God, —of God they are. TO A SKY-LARK. ETHEREAL Minstrel ! Pilgrim of the sky ! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound 1 Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground Î Thy nest... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...inhabitants. Of these, England possesses a considerable share."— Turner's Sacred History of the World. ETHEREAL minstrel! pilgrim of the sky! Dost thou despise the earth, where cares ahound ? Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye, Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground ? Thy... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...no code, No master spirit, no determined road; But equally a want of books and men ! To a Sky-lark. Ethereal minstrel ! pilgrim of the sky ! Dost thou...Those quivering wings composed, that music still! To the last point of vision, and beyond, Mount, daring warbler! — that love-prompted strain ('Twixt... | |
 | Gem fancier - American poetry - 1852 - 256 pages
...ETHEREAL minstrel! pilgrim of the sky! Dost tbou despise the earth, where cares abound ? Or, while tliy wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest,...drop into at will, Those quivering wings composed, and music still! To the last point of vision, and beyond, Mount, daring warbler ! that love-prompted... | |
 | Naturalist pseud, Edward Wilson (M.A., F.L.S.) - 1852 - 444 pages
...ETHEREAL minstrel! pilgrim of the sky ! M. Dost thou despise the earth, where cares abound; Or, while thy wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest,...thou canst drop into at will, Those quivering wings compos'd, and music still! To the last point of vision, and beyond, Mount, daring warbler ! that love-prompted... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...fallen rose! sad emblem of their doom ; Frail as thyself, they perish while they bloom! TO A SKY-LARK. ETHEREAL Minstrel! Pilgrim of the sky! Dost thou despise...Those quivering wings composed, that music still! To the last point of vision, and beyond, Mount, daring Warbler! that love-prompted strain, ('Twixt... | |
 | William S. Forrest - Norfolk (Va.) - 1853 - 498 pages
...they begin at the top of their scale and descend in like manner. At one moment they will touch a " 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... | |
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them. 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,... 
