The Prelude 1 Flashcards
Prelude
‘the sweet breath of heaven/ Was blowing on my body, felt within/ A correspondent breeze,’
a
‘A tempest, a redundant energy,/ Vexing its own creation.’
j
‘the hope/ Of active days urged on by flying hours,’
j
‘Days of sweet leisure, taxed with patient thought/ Abstruse,’
j
‘Matins and vespers of harmonious verse!’
k
‘Pour forth that day my soul in measured strains/ That would not be forgotten,’
k
‘poetic numbers came/ Spontaneously to clothe in priestly robe/ A renovated spirit singled out,’
;
‘the mind’s/ Internal echo of the imperfect sound;’
k
‘A cheerful confidence in things to come.’
d
‘slackening my thoughts by choice/ And settling into gentler happiness.’
d
‘With warmth, as much was needed,’
v
‘in the sheltered and the sheltering grove/ A perfect stillness.’
v
‘a higher power/ Than fancy gave assurance of some work/ Of glory there forthwith to be begun,/ Perhaps too there performed.’
v
‘But as a Pilgrim resolute,’
b
‘The road pointed toward the chosen Vale.’
