To a Skylark (Shelley)

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To a Skylark (1820)
by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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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. 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. Warning: template has been deprecated.

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Versions of To a Skylark include:

"To a Skylark", in Prometheus Unbound; a lyrical drama in four acts with other poems (1820)
"Ode to a Skylark" in Poems That Every Child Should Know (1904), edited by Mary Elizabeth Burt
"To a Skylark", in The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1914)
"To a Skylark" in the Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900 (1931), edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch
"To a Skylark" in the Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1918 (1940), edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch