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Percy shelley to a skylark
"To a Skylark" is a poem completed by Percy Bysshe Shelley in late June 1820 and published accompanying his lyrical drama Prometheus Unbound by Charles and James Collier in London.
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It was inspired by an evening walk in the country near Livorno, Italy, with his wife Mary Shelley, and describes the appearance and song of a skylark they come upon. Mary Shelley described the event that inspired Shelley to write "To a Skylark": "In the Spring we spent a week or two near Leghorn (Livorno) ... It was on a beautiful summer evening while wandering among the lanes whose myrtle hedges were the bowers of the fire-flies, that we heard the carolling of the skylark."
To a skylark by percy bysshe shelley
Influence
The 1941 comic play Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward takes its title from the opening line:
"Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! / Bird thou never wert".Thomas Hardy wrote the poem "Shelley's Skylark".