Dictionary Entry

lark

Part of Speech: nounPronunciation: /lɑːk/Used In Literature ↓

Any of various small, singing passerine birds of the family Alaudidae.

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Common Phrases

. larkrise larklark hornedlark meadowlark littlelark crested

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Poetry examples for “lark”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

While Windsor lent us tuneful hours of ease, 70
Our ears the lark, the thrush, the turtle blest,
And Philomela sweetest o'er the rest:

Hangs ripe in the heavens, your voyaging stay.
Be morning, O Sun! with the lark in song,
Be afternoon for ages long.

A shadow falls across the sunlight; wait!
A lark is singing as he flies away.

Rooks roused with civic din the elms,
And lark its wild reveillez rung;
In Libyan dell the light gazelle,

A violet bed is budding near,
Wherein a lark has made her nest:
And good they are, but not the best;

There by day the lark is singing
And the grass and weeds are springing:

FT HE love-mad lark you sing of swooned,”
they said,

Which thou wert wont on wasteful hills to sing,
I more delight than lark in summer days,
Whose echo made the neighbour groves to ring,

264 That lifts your notes from shepherds to kings,
265 So like the lively lark that, mounting, sings.
266

And far different.
Even so the lark
Loves dust