 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,...  Advanced Reading Book: Literary and Scientific - Page 388by Advanced reading book - 1860 - 432 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - 1855 - 704 pages
...Should find brief solace there, as I have found. 21 22 WORDSWORTH'S POEMS. TO A SKY-LARK. "L1 THERE AL minstrel ! pilgrim of the sky ! Dost thou despise...at will, Those quivering wings composed, that music slill I Leave to the nightingale her shady wood ; A privacy of glorious light is thine ; Whence thou... | |
 | 1855 - 902 pages
...home-circle of your acquaintance. TO A SKYLARK. ETHEREAL minstrel ! pilgrim of the sky ! Do3t thon despise the earth, where cares abound ? Or, while...into at will, Those quivering wings composed, that mnsic still ! To the last point of vision and beyond, Mount, daring warbler! — that love-prompted... | |
 | 1856 - 754 pages
...Seben^ ^seetweg ; unb bod) (lets beteit. 3u ttagen be^ getingjlen DienfleS SBiitbe. To a Sky -lark. Ethereal minstrel ! pilgrim of the sky ! Dost thou...will, Those quivering wings composed, that music still ! To the last point of vision, and beyond, Mount, daring warbler ! — that love - prompted strain... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...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...Those quivering wings composed, that music still. To the last point of vision, and heyond, Mount daring warhler ! that love-prompted strain ('Twixt thee... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 pages
...The meanest rill, the mightiest river, Rolls mingling with their fame for ever. Byson. TO A SKYLARK.1 ETHEREAL minstrel ! pilgrim of the sky ! Dost thou...heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground ? The nest which thou canst drop into at will, Those quivering wings composed, that .music still !... | |
 | Marvels - 1856 - 102 pages
...Sand Pipers and Sand Martins. 22 The Sky-lark.— See Wordsworth's beautiful sonnet. TO THE SKYLARK. " 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... | |
 | Johann Matthäus Bechstein - 1856 - 598 pages
...blithesome of songsters. As it is, we must be content with one only, and it shall be WOEDSWOETH'S : — " 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... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1856 - 600 pages
...tribes has received more poetical tributes. Take the following from Wordsworth : " Ethereal minstrel I 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... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...self-sacrifice ; The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live. TO A SKYLAEK. 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... | |
 | 1859 - 926 pages
...symbol of the skylark, as it appeared to the imagination of Wordsworth, who sings of it thus : — " Ethereal minstrel ! pilgrim of the sky ! Dost thou...will, Those quivering wings composed, that music still ! " To the last point of vision, and beyond, Mount, daring warbler ! that love-prompted strain ('Twixt... | |
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