565. From To a Skylark by Percy Bysshe Shelley
PB Shelley read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\nhttp://classicpoetryaloud.podomatic.com/\n\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\n\n---------------------------------------------------\n\nfrom To a Skylark \nby Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792\u20131822)\n \n Hail to thee, blithe spirit! \n Bird thou never wert\u2014 \n That from heaven or near it \n Pourest thy full heart \nIn profuse strains of unpremeditated art. \n \n Higher still and higher \n From the earth thou springest, \n Like a cloud of fire; \n The blue deep thou wingest, \nAnd singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. \n \n In the golden light'ning \n Of the sunken sun, \n O'er which clouds are bright'ning, \n Thou dost float and run, \nLike an unbodied joy whose race is just begun. \n\n\nFirst aired: 21 August 2007\n\nFor hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index.\n\nReading \xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud 2008