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(Encyclopedia) skylark, common name for a passerine songbird (Alauda arvensis) famous for the soaring, melodious flight of the courting male. Found in Europe (except in the Mediterranean area), it is…Brewer's: Skylark
among sailors, is to mount the highest yards (called sky-scrapers), and then slide down the ropes for amusement. (See Lark.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Percy Bysshe Shelley: To a Skylark
by Percy Bysshe Shelley The CloudCancelled Passage of the Ode to LibertyTo a Skylark Composed at Leghorn, 1820, and published with "Prometheus Unbound" in the same year. There is a…Brewer's: Skye
(Isle of) means the isle of gaps or indentations (Celtic, skyb, a gap). Hence also the Skibbereen of Cork, which is Skyb-bohreen, the byway gap, a pass in a mountain to the sea. Source:…Brewer's: Slander, Offence
Slander is a stumbling-block or something which trips a person up (Greek, skandalon, through the French esclandre). Offence is the striking of our foot against a stone (Latin, ob fendo, as…Percy Bysshe Shelley: Cancelled Passage of the Ode to Liberty
by Percy Bysshe Shelley To a SkylarkTo -Cancelled Passage of the Ode to Liberty Published by Dr. Garnett, "Relics of Shelley", 1862. Within a cavern of man's trackless spirit Is throned…Christina Rossetti: Gone for Ever
Gone for EverO happy rose-bud blooming Upon thy parent tree, Nay, thou art too presuming; For soon the earth entombing Thy faded charms shall be, And the chill damp consuming.O happy…John Keats: To a Friend who sent me some Roses
by JohnKeatsHow many bards gild the lapses of time!To G. A. W.To a Friend who sent me some Roses As late I rambled in the happy fields, What time the sky-lark shakes the tremulous dew…George Sylvester Viereck: Wanderers
WanderersGeorge Sylvester ViereckSweet is the highroad when the skylarks call, When we and Love go rambling through the land. But shall we still walk gayly, hand in hand, At the road's…Florence Earle Coates: Song. "For me the jasmine buds unfold"
Song. "For me the jasmine buds unfold"Florence Earle CoatesFor me the jasmine buds unfold And silver daisies star the lea, The crocus hoards the sunset gold, And the wild rose breathes for…Trending
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