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  • Inspired, the lark's song moves its whole being, makes it quake with "Divine effluence"; its whole body

    Blake, Heidegger, Buddhism, and Deep Ecology: A Fourfold Perspective on Humanity's Relationship to Nature 2007

  • The lark's soaring notes in the clear air were usually taken as a sign of good weather on the way.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Jan 2008

  • Along the lane a young miner chases rabbits, loses them but returns to his group with a nest of lark's eggs that he has found and tenderly returns: "Showed them; lodged them in the grasses."

    The Poet's Alchemy 2007

  • The lark's eggs that were found and returned by the young miner now reappear in the poem in the hands of a miner in the group walking out of the sun: "One showing the eggs unbroken."

    The Poet's Alchemy 2007

  • Cue Pythonesque policeman and a dollop of lark's vomit

    Grr... Tubes... sbisson 2004

  • The lark's voice seems to pour down from way up there.

    Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

  • "It is not so unlike finding the lark's nest by recalling how she darts into the sky from cover," she said to Blind Seer, mentally tracing the arrow's path.

    Through Wolfs Eyes 2001

  • "The silver chain of sound" was how George Meredith described the lark's singing, and poet after poet has added praise to the nightingale; but it would take all the poets, from Wordsworth down, to do justice to the curlew's call.

    Rose cottage Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1997

  • "The silver chain of sound" was how George Meredith described the lark's singing, and poet after poet has added praise to the nightingale; but it would take all the poets, from Wordsworth down, to do justice to the curlew's call.

    Rose cottage Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1997

  • "'The lark's on the wing;/The snail's on the thorn,'" I said.

    Futures Imperfect Willis, Connie 1994

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