Skylarks Quotes

• Never till this day Did life disturb the dense eternity Of joyless quiet; never skylark's song, Or storm-bird's prescient scream, or eaglet's cry, Made vital the gross fog. The very light Is but an alien that can find no welcome

  Hartley Coleridge

  Song, Light, Fog

  Hartley Coleridge (1851). “Poems”, p.290

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• Skylark Have you anything to say to me? Won't you tell me where my love can be?

  Johnny Mercer

  Music

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• you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?

  Khalil Gibran

  Freedom, Liberty, Strings

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.74, Lulu.com

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• Skylark,Have you seen a valley green with SpringWhere my heart can go a-journeying,Over the shadows in the rainTo 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

  Lonely, Crazy, Heart

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• Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sad, Song, Musical

  "To a Skylark" l. 88 (1819)

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• Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Book, Skills, Larks

  1820 'To a Skylark', stanza 21.

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• In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Running, Clouds, Race

  1820 'To a Skylark', stanza 3.

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• She is like a cat in the dark And then she is the darkness She rules her life like a fine skylark And when the sky is starless All your life you've never seen a woman Taken by the wind Would you stay if she promised you heaven? Will you ever win?

  Stevie Nicks

  Taken, Cat, Dark

  Song: Rhiannon

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• Sounds of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain awaken'd flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Rain, Flower, Sound

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1832). “The Beauties of Percy Bysshe Shelley ... Third Edition”, p.218

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• We attend to his later performances as a dramatic actor with respect, but watching the nondancing, nonsinging Astaire is like watching a grounded skylark.

  Fred Astaire

  Respect, Actors, Dramatic

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• A skylark wounded in the wing, / A cherubim does cease to sing.

  William Blake

  Wings, Singing, Doe

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 9

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• We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Happiness, Song, Laughter

  "To a Skylark" l. 88 (1819)

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• But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you?

  Khalil Gibran

  Earth, Sun, Walks

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.74, Lulu.com

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• Heart of my heart, the world is young;
  Love lies hidden in every rose!

  Alfred Noyes

  Life, Lying, Heart

  Alfred Noyes (1911). “Drake. The enchanted island. New poems”

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• A dog starved at his master's gate Predicts the ruin of the state.

  William Blake

  Dog, Ruins, Robin Redbreast

  "Auguries of Innocence" l. 9 (ca. 1803)

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• I love the night passionately. I love it as I love my country, or my mistress, with an instinctive, deep, and unshakeable love. I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness. Skylarks sing in the sunshine, the blue sky, the warm air, in the fresh morning light. The owl flies by night, a dark shadow passing through the darkness; he hoots his sinister, quivering hoot, as though he delights in the intoxicating black immensity of space.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Country, Morning, Dark

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• Heart of my heart, the world is young;
  Love lies hidden in every rose!
  Every song that the skylark sung
  Once, we thought, must come to a close:
  Now we know the spirit of song,
  Song that is merged in the chant of the whole,
  Hand in hand as we wander along,
  What should we doubt of the years that roll?

  Alfred Noyes

  Life, Song, Lying

  Alfred Noyes (1911). “Drake. The enchanted island. New poems”

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• But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you? You who travel with the wind, what weathervane shall direct your course? What man's law shall bind you if you break your yoke but upon no man's prison door? What laws shall you fear if you dance but stumble against no man's iron chains? And who is he that shall bring you to judgment if you tear off your garment yet leave it in no man's path? People of Orphalese, you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?

  Khalil Gibran

  Men, Doors, Wind

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.

  Oscar Wilde

  Apples, Brain, Red

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.9, Penguin

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• Summer skylarks Dart about the heavens Above the deep mountains.

  Dakotsu Iida

  Summer, Nature, Heaven

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• Weather in towns is like a skylark in a counting-house-out of place and in the way.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Weather, House, Way

  Jerome K. Jerome (2015). “Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.45, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Because the road is rough and long, Should we despise the skylark's song?

  Anne Bronte

  Song, Long, Should

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• A dog starv'd at the master's gate
  Predicts the ruin of the State.
  A horse misus'd upon the road
  Calls to heaven for human blood.
  Each outcry of the hunted hare
  A fibre from the brain does tear,
  A skylark wounded on the wing,
  A cherubim does cease to sing.

  William Blake

  Dog, Horse, Animal

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 9

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