 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
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...inhabitants. Of these, England possesses a considerable share." — Turner's Sacred History oftiu: World. 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 thee... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1851 - 748 pages
...rebounds, beware, — Listen, ponder, hold them dear; For of God, — of God they are. TO A SKY-LARK. , 1 Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground ! Thy nest... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 248 pages
...her aerial tower. BEATTIB. XII.— TO A SKYLARK. ETHEREAL minstrel ! pilgrim of the sky ! Dost thon despise the earth where cares abound ? Or, while the...thou canst drop into at will, Those quivering wings compos'd, that music still ! To the last point of vision, and beyond, Mount, daring warbler ! — that... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 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...heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground? j Thy nest, which thou canst drop into at will, Those quivering wings composed , that music still!... | |
 | 1852 - 436 pages
..."Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky! Dost thou despise the earth, when cares abound ? Or, while thy wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest,...Those quivering wings composed, that music still. To the last point of vision, and beyond, Mount, daring warbler! That love- prompted strain ('Twixt... | |
 | Naturalist pseud, Edward Wilson (M.A., F.L.S.) - 1852 - 444 pages
...attentive spirit show The meek and lowly ONE. M. See " Passion Flower," by B, BARTON. THE SKY-LARK. 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 1 Thy nest which thou... | |
 | Stair Douglas - 1852 - 192 pages
...singing ? I am sure you must be thinking of them now." Aunt Edith repeated Wordsworth's lines — " 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... | |
 | William S. Forrest - 1853 - 522 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... | |
 | William S. Forrest - 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...emblem of their doom ; Frail as thyself, they perish while they bloom ! BLOOM FIELD. TO A SKY-LARK. ETHEREAL Minstrel ! Pilgrim of the sky ! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound i Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground \ Thy nest... | |
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