...published in New York Evening Mirror Han. 29, 1845). 5 Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, (1792-1822) British poet. "To a Skylark," st. 1 (written 1 820). Opening lines....

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...actually the literary dissolution of the body: Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert — That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. "Like an unbodied joy," Shelley's lark bleeds only music. Dickinson's lark, however, produces a bizarrely...

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...sense of conflict contained within a reconciliation: Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near It, Pourest thy 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...

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...gloom of earthquake and eclipse. 10707 To a Skylark' Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, C D 3 10706 'To a Skylark' And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. 10709 To a Skylark' Like...

...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...

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...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'...