C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Lark
It was the lark, the herald of the morn.
Shakespeare.
Merry larks are ploughmen’s clocks.
Shakespeare.
The busy lark, the messenger of day.
Chaucer.
Rise with the lark, and with the lark to bed.
Hurdis.
They longed to see the day, to hear the lark record her hymns, and chant her carols blest.
Fairfax.
Milton.
Lyly.
Shakespeare.