Upon the glassy plain; and oftentimes, When we had given our bodies to the wind, And all the shadowy banks on either side Came sweeping through the darkness, spinning still The rapid line of motion, then at once Have I, reclining back upon my heels, Stopped... Poems - Page 47by William Wordsworth - 1815Full view - About this book
| William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1880 - 354 pages
...short ; yet still the solitary cliffs Wheeled hy me — even as if the earth had rolled With visihle motion her diurnal round ! Behind me did they stretch in solemn train, Feehler and feehler, and I stood and watched Till all was tranquil as a summer sea. THE OLD CUMBERLAND... | |
| Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 654 pages
...either side Came sweeping through the darkness, spinning still The rapid line of motion, then at once Have I, reclining back upon my heels Stopped short...and I stood and watched Till all was tranquil as a dreamless sleep. (I799-) THE GREEN LINNET. Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed Their snow-white... | |
| James M. Heath - Arts and society - 1984 - 208 pages
...spinning still The rapid line of motion; then at once Have I, reclining back upon my heels, Stopp'd short, yet still the solitary Cliffs Wheeled by me, even as if the earth had roll'd With visible motion her diurnal round; Behind me did they stretch in solemn train Feebler and... | |
| R. P. Hewett - English Poetry - 1985 - 322 pages
...either side 30 Came sweeping through the darkness, spinning still The rapid line of motion, then at once Have I, reclining back upon my heels, Stopped short;...Wheeled by me — even as if the earth had rolled 35 With visible motion her diurnal round ! Behind me did they stretch in solemn train, Feebler and... | |
| William Wordsworth - Literary Collections - 1985 - 84 pages
...either side Came sweeping through the darkness, spinning still The rapid line of motion, then at once Have I, reclining back upon my heels, Stopped short - yet still the solitary cliffs 180 Wheeled by me, even as if the earth had rolled With visible motion her diurnal round. Behind me... | |
| Robert Weisbuch - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 366 pages
...the senses at CHAPTER TEN best make palpable essential truths beyond sense, as when the skating child reclining back upon my heels, Stopped short; yet still...had rolled With visible motion her diurnal round! (1:457-60) More than the earth's physical turning, the spirit's vital dynamism is revealed by this... | |
| Meena Alexander - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 240 pages
...the ice, the cliffs, even the very earth still spins, stretching out as spectacles for consciousness: 'Feebler and feebler, and I stood and watched /Till all was tranquil as a dreamless sleep.' (Prel. 1 :459, 470-1, 488-9) From bodily immersion, sheer, unreflective action the... | |
| Brian G. Caraher - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 293 pages
...is to be located in another passage written at nearly the same time while Wordsworth was in Germany: yet still the solitary cliffs Wheeled by me — even...had rolled With visible motion her diurnal round! These lines occur in an "extract" from Book I of The Prelude (lines 458-60) that was published separately... | |
| Salim Kemal, Ivan Gaskell - Philosophy - 1993 - 296 pages
...either side Came sweeping through the darkness, spinning still The rapid line of motion, then at once Have I, reclining back upon my heels, Stopped short;...the earth had rolled With visible motion her diurnal round!6 A second important duality characterizes an aesthetic concern with nature. On the one hand,... | |
| William Wordsworth - Fiction - 1994 - 628 pages
...either side Came sweeping through the darkness, spinning still The rapid line of motion, then at once Have I, reclining back upon my heels, Stopped short,...cliffs Wheeled by me - even as if the earth had rolled 460 With visible motion her diurnal round! Behind me did they stretch in solemn train, Feebler and... | |
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