Nature Poet goes to College
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Wordsworth goes to Cambridge:
IT was a dreary morning when the wheels
Rolled over a wide plain o'erhung with clouds,
And nothing cheered our way till first we saw
The long-roofed chapel of King's College lift
Turrets and pinnacles in answering files,
Extended high above a dusky grove.
As near and nearer to the spot we drew,
It seemed to suck us in with an eddy's force.
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"Near me hung Trinity's loquacious clock"
Trinity's "pealing organ was may neighbour too "
"The antechapel where the statue stood"
"Of Newton with his prism and silent face,
The marble index of a mind for ever
Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.
I did frequent the "College grove and tributary walks"
"A single tree"
(Cambridge generally)
(more information about Cambridge)
Vacation in the Alps:
we "Beheld the Convent of Chartreuse , and there rested within an awful 'solitude'
the waterfall:
The immeasurable height
Of woods decaying, never to be decayed,
The stationary blasts of waterfalls,
And in the narrow rent at every turn
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 the raving stream,
The unfettered clouds and region of the Heavens,
Tumult and peace, the darkness and the light--
Were all like workings of one mind, the features
Of the same face, blossoms upon one tree;
Characters of the great Apocalypse,
The types and symbols of Eternity,
Of first, and last, and midst, and without end.
