 | Daniel A. Dombrowski - 1988 - 174 pages
...this gloomy Pass, And with them did we journey several hours At a slow step. The immeasurable heights Of woods decaying never to be decayed, The stationary...bewildered and forlorn, The torrents shooting from the cleat blue sky The rocks that muttered close upon our ears. Black drizzling crags that spake by the... | |
 | Stephen Gill - 1991 - 132 pages
...this gloomy pass. And with them did we journey several hours At a slow step. The immeasurable height Of woods decaying, never to be decayed, The stationary blasts of waterfalls, And everywhere along the hollow rent Winds thwarting winds, bewildered and forlorn, The torrents shooting... | |
 | Matt Cartmill - 1996 - 352 pages
...poet perceives and reaches out to the spiritual reality behind nature's transient forms: The torrent shooting from the clear blue sky, The rocks that muttered close upon our ears . . . Tumult and peace, the darkness and the light — Were all like workings of one mind, the features... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 pages
...this gloomy strait And with them did we journey several hours At a slow pace. The immeasurable height Of woods decaying, never to be decayed, The stationary...forlorn, The torrents shooting from the clear blue sky, 630 The rocks that muttered close upon our ears, Black drizzling crags that spake by the way-side As... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...this gloomy Pass, And with them did we joumey several hours At a slow step. The immeasurable height Of woods decaying, never to be decayed, The stationary...blasts of waterfalls, And in the narrow rent, at every tum. Winds thwarting winds bewildered and forlom, The torrents shooting from the clear blue sky. The... | |
 | John Wyatt - 1995 - 300 pages
...is worth quoting because of its detailed references to Catastrophic history: The immeasurable height Of woods decaying, never to be decayed, The stationary blasts of waterfalls And everywhere along the hollow rent Winds thwarting winds, bewildered and forlorn, The torrents shooting... | |
 | Joseph Frank - 1995 - 544 pages
...mountain route,"20 but Wordsworth made an effort to do so all the same. "The immeasurable height / Of woods decaying, never to be decayed / The stationary blasts of waterfalls / . . . The torrents shooting from the clear blue sky" — these are some of the impressions that the... | |
 | Greta Claire Gaard, Patrick D. Murphy - 1998 - 270 pages
...cross a clear torrent pent up by crags. (Dorothy Wordsworth qtd. in Homans 61) The immeasurable height Of woods decaying, never to be decayed, The stationary...ears, Black drizzling crags that spake by the way-side Were all like workings of one mind, the features Of the same face, blossoms upon one tree; Characters... | |
 | Timothy Gould - 1998 - 253 pages
...vocation. And as he retraces his steps, a voice emerges from within the disorder of nature: "Black dizzying crags that spake by the wayside/ As if a voice were in them ..." (book 6, lines 631-32). The voice the poet hears in the waterfalls corresponds to Wordsworth's... | |
 | Kenneth R. Johnston - 1998 - 1018 pages
...in which the imagination finally outstrips altogether its mountain passage: The immeasurable height Of woods decaying, never to be decayed, The stationary blasts of waterfalls, And everywhere along the hollow rent Winds thwarting winds, bewildered and forlorn, The torrents shooting... | |
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Winds thwarting winds, bewildered and forlorn, The torrents shooting from the clear blue sky, The rocks that muttered close upon our ears, Black drizzling crags that spake by the way-side As if a voice were in them, the sick sight And giddy prospect of... 
