Larks

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A lark is a kind of bird.

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• Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
  Like to the lark at break of day arising
  From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate
  • William Shakespeare, Sonnet 29

• Hark! hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings,
  And Phoebus 'gins arise,
  • William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act 2 Sc 3

• 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.
  • Percy Shelley, To a Skylark

• There was an Old Man with a beard,
  Who said, "It is just as I feared! --
  Two Owls and a Hen, four Larks and a Wren,
  Have all built their nests in my beard.
  • Edward Lear, There Was an Old Man with a Beard

• The year's at the spring
  And day's at the morn;
  Morning's at seven;
  The hillside's dew-pearled;
  The lark's on the wing;
  The snail's on the thorn;
  God's in his heaven--
  All's right with the world!
  • Robert Browning, Pippa Passes part 1, line 222

• Here of a Sunday morning
  My love and I would lie,
  And see the coloured counties,
  And hear the larks so high
  About us in the sky.
  • A. E. Housman, Bredon Hill

• Skylark,
  Have you seen a valley green with Spring
  Where my heart can go a-journeying,
  Over the shadows in the rain
  To a blossom covered lane?
  And in your lonely flight,
  Haven't you heard the music in the night,
  Wonderful music,
  Faint as a will-o-the-wisp,
  Crazy as a loon,
  Sad as a gypsy serenading the moon.
  • Johnny Mercer, Song Skylark

• Hark, hark! the lark
  On windswept bark
  Freezes against a sky of lead!
  Now see him stop,
  Take one small hop,
  And suddenly keel over dead!
  • Ogden Nash, The Lark

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