...showers a rain of melody. Like a high-born maiden In a palace tower, Soothing her love-laden Souls in secret hour With music sweet as love, which overflows her bower. It is remarkable that though wonder is evidently the leading sentiment of this short poem, the poet...

...imagined himself making contact with an audience, though that contact is usually expressed as a paradox: Like a Poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing...wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not. ("To a Sky-Lark," lines 36-40) The audience is converted to the poet's beliefs, but the poet himself...

...is most like thee? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. Like a Poet hidden In the...wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not. . . . ("To a Skylark' I looked for him behind an isle of trees; I listened for his whetstone on the...

...A single stanza of Shelley's poem occasioned the kind of detailed analysis he would have welcomed: Like a high-born maiden In a palace tower Soothing...Soul in secret hour With music sweet as love, which overflowed her bower. "Not a sound of a vowel in the quatrain," Hunt points out, "resembles that of...

...is simply a necessary prelude to recognition. The bird is famously compared to a poet in stanza 8: Like a Poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing...wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not . . . (lines 36-4o) The poet is present but concealed by his 'thought' from the view of the public,...

...Similes ist das erste, die den Dichter selbst als Bildbereich für das Wesen des Vogels eintreten läßt: „Like a poet hidden /In the light of thought, /.../ To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not." (v. 36-40). Vgl. dazu im weiteren Doggett: Romanticism's Singing Bird (Anm. 647) S. 553. Vgl. zu der...

...soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home! O stodgy git. Like a high-horu maiden In a palace tower, Soothing her love-laden Soul in secret hour Witli music sweet as love which overflows her bower. O gushy twit, He rises and begins to round, He...

...poetry, since both can bring joy and vision into the world without bird or poet needing to be visible: "Like a Poet hidden / In the light of thought, / Singing hymns unbidden." Poetry, like the song of the unseen bird, transcends the poet's life and personality. The poem goes...

...to a simile in his favorite stanza (the only one chosen for Parnassus') of Shelley's "To a Skylark": like a poet hidden "In the light of thought, / Singing hymns unbidden. . . ." But the phrase "by knowledge grown too bright" also resembles Shelley's variation on Byron's...

...Harris,' GP, 340-52) . Harris's letters to Carr have been housed at BCARS, Inglis Collection, MS 2181. 'Like a Poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing...unbidden 'Till the world is wrought To sympathy with joys and fears it heeded not.'6 There you have the secret of how art teaches - not consciously, not...