Extract from, 'The Prelude' quotes Flashcards
William Wordsworth
‘It was an act…’
‘It was an act of stealth and troubled pleasure’
‘a huge peak, black and huge…’
‘a huge peak, black and huge… upreared its head’
‘o’er my thoughts…’
‘o’er my thoughts
There hung a darkness, call it solitude
Or blank desertion’
‘were a trouble…’
‘were a trouble to my dreams’
‘She was an elfin pinnace…’
‘She was an elfin pinnace; lustily I dipped my oars into the silent lake’
‘No familiar shapes…’
‘No familiar shapes Remained, no pleasant images of trees, Of sea or sky, no colours of green fields’
‘Small circles glittering idly…’
‘Small circles glittering idly in the moon, Until they melted all into one track Of sparkling light’
‘Proud of his skill…’
‘Proud of his skill, to reach a chosen point With an unswerving line, I fixed my view Upon the summit of a craggy ridge’
