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Letter "L" » lark
«Once you have heard the lark, known the swish of feet through hill-top grass and smelt the earth made ready for the seed, you are never again going to be fully happy about the cities and towns that man carries like a crippling weight upon his back.»
Author: Gwyn Thomas
| Keywords:
carry back, crippling, lark, larks, smelt, smelted, smelts, swish, towns
«When I was a child and the snow fell, my mother always rushed to the kitchen and made snow ice cream and divinity fudge-egg whites, sugar and pecans, mostly. It was a lark then and I always associate divinity fudge with snowstorms.»
Author: Eudora Welty
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
associate, cream, divinity, divinity fudge, fudge, lark, larks, rushed, snowstorm, snowstorms, Snow White, sugar, The Larks, whites
«The year's at the spring / And day's at the morn; / Morning's at seven; / The hillside's dew-pearled; / The lark's on the wing; / The snail's on the thorn; / God's in his heaven - / All's right with the world!»
Author: Robert Browning
(Poet)
| Keywords:
all right, dew, hillside, lark, larks, morn, on the wing, pearled, right wing, snail, snails, Spring and, The Larks, The Pearl, thorn, wing
«Every bird as it is reared and the lark for the bog.»
«Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly -- a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
came, commit, cost, costing, created, creditable, effected, effecting, effects, folly, grotesque, grotesques, human race, in place, lark, larks, least, must have, observe, race, regret, reputation, The Larks, to that effect
«Haply I think on thee, and then my state,Like to the lark at break of day arisingFrom sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;For thy sweet love remembered such wealth bringsThat then I scorn to change my state with kings.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
arising, break of day, gate, haply, hymn, hymns, lark, larks, My state, remembered, scorn, sings, state change, sullen, The Larks
«What: is the jay more precious than the lark because his feathers are more beautiful?»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
feathers, jay, lark, larks, The Larks
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