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Poems Of William Wordsworth: To The Skylark
From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Wordsworth, William
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To The Skylark
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, that music still!
To the last point of vision, and beyond Mount, daring warbler! - that love - prompted strain - 'Twixt thee and thine a never - failing bond - Thrills not the less the bosom of the plain: Yet might'st thou seem, proud privilege! to sing All independent of the leafy Spring.
Leave to the nightingale ...
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