This poem's speaker questions the "joy we ever should come near" if "we were things born / Not to shed a tear" and asks, "What objects are the fountai
This poem's speaker questions the "joy we ever should come near" if "we were things born / Not to shed a tear" and asks, "What objects are the fountains / Of thy happy strain?" Images in this poem include a "rose embowered / In its own green leaves" and a "glow-worm golden / In a dell of dew." This poem's speaker states "The world should listen then Â– as I am listening now" after declaring that if the title figure would teach him "half the gladness / That thy brain must know, / Such harmonious madness / From my lips would flow." This poem begins with its speaker exclaiming, "Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!" For 10 points, name this poem addressing a bird, by Percy Shelley.