| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909. | | | | To a Sky-Lark | | By William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | | 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, | 5 |
| Those quivering wings composed, that music still! | |
| Leave to the Nightingale her shady wood; | |
| A privacy of glorious light is thine; | |
| Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood | |
| Of harmony, with instinct more divine; | 10 |
| Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; | |
| True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home! | | | | |
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