Thursday, January 1, 2004
Shelley's Skylark. Comments
Rating: ★2.8
Somewhere afield here something lies
In Earth's oblivious eyeless trust
That moved a poet to prophecies -
A pinch of unseen, unguarded dust
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7/25/2025 10:09:37 PM # 1.0.0
The Japanese writer Natsume Sōseki also quotes Shelley's Skylark in the first few pages of my favourite book, 'Kusamakura'. You could say Sōseki has made Shelley's poem an 'uta makura' (poetic pillow) .