ABSTRACT
Published as one of the Miscellaneous Poems in 1820. Mary described what she regarded as the encounter that generated S.’s tribute to the sky-lark in her Note on Poems Written in 1820 (1839 iv 50):
In the spring we spent a week or two near Leghorn, borrowing the house of some friends, who were absent on a journey to England.—It was on a beautiful summer evening, while wandering among the lanes, whose myrtle hedges were the bowers of the fire-flies, that we heard the carolling of the sky-lark, which inspired one of the most beautiful of his poems.
