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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SKYLARKS Matches Found: 65 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LARK SINGING IN THE CITY, by GEORGE ROBERTS (19TH CENTURY) Poem Text First Line: Earth-nested bird, when you were free Last Line: Of earth and sun our joy we keep. Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks A VIOLINIST, by FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lark above our heads doth know Last Line: List raptured, and thank god for thee. Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Violins; Skylarks ADDRESS TO THE WOODLARK, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O stay, sweet warbling woodlark, stay Last Line: Or my poor heart is broken. Variant Title(s): To The Woodlark Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks AUBADE [OR, A MORNING SONG FOR IMOGEN], FR. CYMBELINE, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! Hark! The lark at heaven's gate sings Last Line: Arise, arise! Variant Title(s): Song At Sunrise;song To Imogen Subject(s): Birds; Dawn; Larks; Morning; Spring; Sunrise; Skylarks AUTUMN MEADOWLARK, by LOTUS J. COSTIGAN Poem Text First Line: Have you heard the vagrant lark Last Line: Leaves one sighing in the fall! Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks BE HOPEFUL: 1. THE LARK, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Morning is doffing her mantle of grey Last Line: On high, and thy song be poured not in vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Birds; Hope; Larks; Optimism; Skylarks BEYOND (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How many larks are soaring Last Line: Were earth's divinest melody. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks FOR SATURDAY, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now's the time for mirth and play, / saturday's an holiday! Last Line: Your praises to th' eternal king. Variant Title(s): Hymns For Saturday Subject(s): Birds; Eggs; Larks; Saturday Club; Skylarks IN EXCELSIS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To highest heaven the lark alone Last Line: He chants the litany of love. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks IN GRANTCHESTER MEADOWS; ON HEARING A SKYLARK SING, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too late, thou tender songster of the sky Last Line: Or any true unhappy human thing. Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks IN THE NEST OF THE LARK, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here the silentest of things Last Line: From the skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks KEEPING UP WITH THE SIGNS, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Meadowlarks nesting march to august yield Last Line: Three clear notes do not. Walk in open field. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Variant Title(s): Keeping Up With Sings Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Signs & Signboards; Skylarks LARKS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day in exquisite air Last Line: The song went up the stair. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Singing & Singers; Stairs; Skylarks MEADOWLARKS, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the silver light after a storm, Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Larks; Skylarks OH! SKYLARK, FOR THY WING, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: O skylark! On thy wing! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Summer; Skylarks ON A FORSAKEN LARK'S NEST, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, where left 'mid the sheaves, cut down by the iron-fanged reaper Last Line: Withers benumbed in a world his joy might have helped to illume. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks ON A LARK WHICH HAD ESCAPED FROM HIS CAGE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A cherish'd captive, ere thy tender wing Last Line: Thy voice, thy pinion, for the skies unfit? Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Birds; Escapes; Larks; Fugitives; Skylarks ON WATCHING THE FLIGHT OF A SKY-LARK, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upward and upward still! In pearly light Last Line: Save by the unswerving flight, upward and upward still! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Spring; Skylarks RECONNAISSANCE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twere bliss to see one lark Last Line: As though one flower were not enough, thank god! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; God; Larks; Praise; Spring; Skylarks RETURNING, WE HEAR THE LARKS, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sombre the night is Last Line: Or her kisses where a serpent hides. Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Skylarks; First World War SEA-CHANGE, by BERENICE VAN SLYKE Poem Text First Line: Before a young lark sings Last Line: Remembers how. Alternate Author Name(s): Heaton, Maurice C., Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 83, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blind from my birth Last Line: Where all joy-bells are ringing. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds; Blindness; Happiness; Larks; Visually Handicapped; Joy; Delight; Skylarks SOME LATE LARK SINGING, by BROTHER CLEMENT Poem Text First Line: These are my songs. As all men sing Last Line: Me up, and far below, some late lark sings! Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Pain; Singing & Singers; Skylarks; Suffering; Misery; Songs SONG: 4. THE SKYLARK, by WILLIAM SHENSTONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, tuneful bird, that glad'st the skies Last Line: Who sings her praise, and sings forlorn. Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks SONG: THE LARK, by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis sweet to hear the merry lark Last Line: And woe may come to-morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks THE CAGED LARK, by COLIN RAE-BROWN Poem Text First Line: Poor prison'd lark! All thy regrets are vain Last Line: And spend my leisure hours with books and thee. Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks THE CAGED SKYLARK, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a dare-gale skylark scanted in a dull cage Last Line: For a rainbow footing it nor he for his bones risen. Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks THE CLASSIC LARK, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, sweet bird, so winsome and so wise! Last Line: While thou art pois'd above the asphodels! Subject(s): Birds; Charon; Larks; Styx (river); Skylarks THE DEAD LARK, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the slope, half-hid in grass, and right beneath the sounding wire Last Line: To the carol of his fellows and the sunshine overhead. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals; Larks; Railroads; Singing & Singers; Skylarks; Railways; Trains; Songs THE FIRST SKYLARK OF SPRING, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two worlds hast thou to dwell in, sweet Last Line: And human dies divine. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Spring; Skylarks THE GREEN CORNFIELD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earth was green, the sky was blue Last Line: And listened longer than I did. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds; Fields; Larks; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Skylarks THE LARK, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I, below the mornen sky Last Line: An' uncaught larks ageän mid sound. Subject(s): Birds; Farm Life; Larks; Agriculture; Farmers; Skylarks THE LARK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stood knee-deep within a field of grain Last Line: Make subtle music for my brooding ear. Subject(s): Birds; Fields; Larks; Life; Singing & Singers; Sky; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Skylarks; Songs THE LARK, by JACQUES PELETIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As soon as does the crimson morn Last Line: And for a while we hear her not. Alternate Author Name(s): Peletier Du Mans, Jacques Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks THE LARK, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A close gray sky Last Line: Then not at all! Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks THE LARK, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From wrath-red dawn to wrath-red dawn Last Line: Lift shining eyes, see heaven too. Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks THE LARK, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a small bird cowering in the dark Last Line: In the dark! Subject(s): Birds; Fear; Larks; Skylarks THE LARK, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He rose, and singing passed from sight Last Line: And heavenly song were one. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks THE LARK ASCENDING, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He rises and begins to round Last Line: In light, and then the fancy sings. Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks THE LARK'S FIAT, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How vast the ocean of the dark Last Line: Awakes the new-created light. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks THE LARK'S NEST, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I never hear a lark its matins sing Last Line: Beneath a morning sky they could not see. Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks THE LAY OF THE LARK, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With dew upon its breast Last Line: "he only murmur'd ""bread!" Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks THE LITTLE RED LARK, by ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O swan of slenderness Last Line: Laughing on every spray. Subject(s): Birds; Courtship; Larks; Skylarks THE MEADOW LARK, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though the winds be dank Last Line: Who sing when skies are gray! Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks THE SEA AND THE SKYLARK, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On ear and ear two noises too old to end Last Line: To man's last dust, drain fast towards man's first slime. Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks THE SKY-LARK; CHILD'S MORNING HYMN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sky-lark, when the dews of morn Last Line: Most glad, when rising most to thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Morning; Skylarks THE SKYLARK, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rolls and harrows lie at rest beside Last Line: Lies safely, with the leveret, in the corn. Subject(s): Birds; Birds' Nests; Environment; Fields; Larks; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Skylarks THE SKYLARK, by JAMES HEDDERWICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whither away, proud bird? Is not thy home / on earth's low breast? Last Line: Their author -- thou! Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks THE SKYLARK, by JAMES HOGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bird of the wilderness Last Line: O, to abide in the desert with thee! Alternate Author Name(s): The Ettrick Shepherd; The Bard Of Ettrick Variant Title(s): The Lark Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks THE SKYLARK: CAGED AND FREE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet minstrel of the summer dawn Last Line: I to a loftier sphere on high! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Nature; Skylarks THE SWAN AND THE SKYLARK, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midst the long reeds that o'er a grecian stream Last Line: "and the glad skylark's -- triumph and despair!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Swans; Skylarks THE WAKING OF THE LARK, by ERIC MACKAY Poem Text First Line: O bonnie bird, that in the brake, exultant Last Line: His robes of darkness round him torn, doth scale the lofty heavens! Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks THE WOODLARK, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Teevo cheevo cheevio chee: / o where, what can that be? Last Line: Of a sweet -- a sweet -- sweet -- joy.' Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks TO A SKYLARK, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Hail to thee, blithe spirit Last Line: The world should listen then -- as I am listening now. Variant Title(s): Ode To A Skylark Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Religion; Skylarks; Theology TO A SKYLARK (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ethereal minstrel! Pilgrim of the sky Last Line: True to the kindred points of heaven and home! Variant Title(s): To The Skylark Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks TO A SKYLARK (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up with me! Up with me into the clouds! Last Line: And hope for higher raptures, when life's day is done. Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks TO SOME CHILDREN LISTENING TO A LARK, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See the lark prunes his active wings Last Line: Then sleep, my babes, and fear no ill. Subject(s): Birds; God; Larks; Skylarks TO THE LARK, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mount, child of morning, mount and sing Last Line: And share thy ecstasies! Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Larks; Skylarks TO THE LARK, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good speed, for I this day Last Line: Love's, and my sacrifice. Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks TO THE LARK, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And am I up with thee, light-hearted minion? Last Line: Fair fall thy rapid song, sweet bird, and thee! Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks TO THE SKYLARK, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bird of the free and fearless wing! Last Line: And bring down music from the sky! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks TO THE SKYLARK, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Skylark, how I envy you Last Line: To herald each return of spring. Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Love; Spring; Skylarks VENUS AND ADONIS, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even as the sun with purple-colored face Last Line: Means to immure herself and not be seen. Subject(s): Adonis; Animals; Birds; Horses; Larks; Mythology - Classical; Skylarks VIOLIN SONGS: MY HEART THY LARK, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why dost thou want to sing Last Line: Thy lark to meet thy day! Subject(s): Birds; God; Happiness; Hearts; Larks; Joy; Delight; Skylarks WITH THE LARK, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night is for sorrow and dawn is for joy Last Line: I shall wake in the morning to sing with the lark. Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks |
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