托马斯·哈代的《雪莱的云雀》作于1887年 ,诗中盛赞为雪莱带去灵感的云雀,雪莱因之而达到“诗歌意蕴的神妙绝顶”。
图中是部分手稿,内容如下:
Somewhere afield here something lies
In Earth's oblivious eyeless trust
That moved a poet to prophecies -
A pinch of unseen, unguarded dust:
The dust of the lark that Shelley heard,
And made immortal through times to be; -
Though it only lived like another bird,
And knew not its immortality: