. The complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley .... And singing ^singest. ^oanng ever In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun,Oer which clouds are brightninfj,2 16 :i.^«-. To a Skylark Thou dost float and run ;Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun. The pale purple even Melts around thy flight;Like a star of heaven, In the broad daylightThou art unseen, but yet I hear thy shrilldelight. Keen as are the arrowsOf that silver sphere,Whose intense lamp narrowsIn the white dawn clear,Until we hardly see, we feel that it is there. All the earth and air With thy voice is , when night is
. The complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley .... And singing ^singest. ^oanng ever In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun,Oer which clouds are brightninfj,2 16 :i.^«-. To a Skylark Thou dost float and run ;Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun. The pale purple even Melts around thy flight;Like a star of heaven, In the broad daylightThou art unseen, but yet I hear thy shrilldelight. Keen as are the arrowsOf that silver sphere,Whose intense lamp narrowsIn the white dawn clear,Until we hardly see, we feel that it is there. All the earth and air With thy voice is , when night is one lonely cloudThe moon rains out her beams, and heaven isoverflowed. 217 Poems Written in 1820 What thou art we know not; What is most like thee ?From rainbow clouds there flow notDrops so bright to see,As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. Like a poet hidden In the light of thought,Singing hymns the world is wroughtTo sympathy with hopes and fears it heedednot: Like a high-born maiden In a her love-laden Soul in secret hourWith music sweet as lore, which overflows herbower : Like a glowworm golden In a dell
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