"Skylark" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... this cabin," added the captain, still fumbling over the table-leaf, which seemed to be an inexplicable mystery to him, though it may be added in defence of a man of his intelligence, and a boat-builder, too, that he always built keel-boats, while the Skylark was ...
— Little Bobtail - or The Wreck of the Penobscot. • Oliver Optic
... reading, in illustration of something, Wordsworth's poem, "To a Skylark," the earlier of the two with that title: when he came to the ...
— What's Mine's Mine • George MacDonald
... paused, while she sat mute In the soft shadow of the apple-tree; The skylark's song rang like a joyous flute, The brook went prattling past her restlessly: She let their tongues be her tongue's substitute; It was the wind that sighed, it was not she: And what the lark, the brook, the wind, had said, We ...
— Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. • Jean Ingelow
... few seconds, as they stood so, his look held her—their eyes involuntarily and strangely held each other. Something softly glowing in the sunlight falling on them both, something raining down in the song of a rising skylark trilling in the blue a field away, something in the warmed incense of blossoms near them, was calling—calling in the Voice, though they did not know they heard. Strangely, a splendid blush rose in a ...
— The Shuttle • Frances Hodgson Burnett |
