The moon rains out her beams, and Heaven is overflow'd. What thou art we know not;. What is most like thee? From rainbow clouds there flow not.

"To a Skylark" is a poem completed by Percy Bysshe Shelley in late June 1820 and published accompanying his lyrical drama Prometheus Unbound

The poem's speaker addresses a skylark: a small, brown bird known for its impressive song, which the bird can sustain continuously even when in flight. The ...

Type of the wise who soar, but never roam;. True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home!

'To a Skylark' is an ode to the “blithe” essence of a singing skylark and how human beings are unable to ever reach that same bliss.

The skylark's song issues from a state of purified existence, a Wordsworthian notion of complete unity with Heaven through nature; its song is motivated by the ...

Jan 12, 2024 · The poem itself sees the skylark mostly as a vehicle for human concerns, but it does celebrate the skylark as a bird, and attend to the ...

Ode to a Skylark. by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert -. That from Heaven or near it. Pourest thy full heart.

Apr 10, 2019 · Shelley maintains that our love on earth is all the more joyful, more deep even, than what the skylark sings because we can experience sorrow and pain.