...heaven, when thou afforded bad men such music on earth :" IZAAE WALTON, 159S-16Ss. TO THE SKYLARK. Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wer't....soaring ever singest. In the golden lightning Of the setting sun, O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run : Like an unlwdied joy whose...

...heaven, when thou afforded bad men such music on earth ?" IZAAE WALTON, 1593-16S3. TO THE SKYLARK. Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wer't,...soaring ever singest. In the golden lightning Of the setting sun, O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run ; Like an unbodied joy whose...

...resistant. It is most wonderful in poetry, this sense of conflict contained within a reconciliation: Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert,...full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.* Shelley wishes to say, the skylark is a pure, untrammelled spirit, a pure motion. But the very 'Bird...

...when some great painter dips His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse. 10707 To a Skylark' 10706 'To a Skylark' And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. 10709 To a Skylark' Like...

...in humility, and we are no different. FORM : Irregular sonnet, rhyming ababacdcefegeg. To a Skylark Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy füll heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher, From the earth thou...

...understood the popularity of the skylark with poets, notably Shelley who was inspired to write To a Skylark. 'Hail to thee blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, ornear it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.' Bird life will show the...

...which the following verse is drawn: Higher still and higher R bik Ftom the earth thou springest L1ke a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. Shelley was deeply moved by the Skylark's flight display, in which the tiny bird spirals upward above...

...is there than flying? Who hasn't dreamed of it — of being a bird, a skylark, as Shelley imagined? Higher still and higher , From the earth thou springest,...singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest." Flying is a common, perhaps universal human wish. It appears in children's daydreams and in adults'...

...Ode. '"" Robert Beum, Karl Shapiro: A Prosody Handbook. New York l 965, S. 33ff. 70l Ebd., S. 38ff. Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert,...near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremediated art. Higher still and higher, From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The...

...life in near-constant motion, resting only to gather the strength and will for yet another transition? Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert,...full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. What objects are the fountains Of thy happy strain? What fields, or waves, or mountains? What shapes...