The Prelude 2 Flashcards
Just looking onto nature allows him to experience an ease
‘oh, then the calm/ And dead still water lay upon my mind/ Even with a weight of pleasure, and the sky,/ Never before so beautiful, sank down/ Into my heart, and held me like a dream!’
His ability to look at the monotonous and find beauty
‘Daily the common range of visible things/ Grew dearer to me:’
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‘That incidental charms which first attached/ My heart to rural objects, day by day/ Grew weaker,’
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‘How Nature, intervenient till this time/ And secondary, now at length was sought/ For her own sake.’
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‘unblinded by these formal arts,/ The unity of all hath been revealed,’
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‘Along his infant veins are interfused/ The gravitation and the filial bond/ Of nature that connect him with the world.’
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‘feeling has to him imparted power/ That through the growing faculties of sense/ Doth like an agent of the one great Mind/ Create, creator and receiver both,/ Working but in alliance with the world/ Which it beholds.’
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‘Saw blessings spread around me like a sea.’
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‘all my thoughts/ Were steeped in feeling; I was only then/ Contended, when with bliss ineffable/ I felt the sentiment off Being spread/ O’er all that moves and all that seemeth still;’
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‘great the joy I felt,/ Communing’
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‘I am content/ With my own modest pleasures, and have lived/ With God and Nature communing, removed/ From little enmities and low desires–/ The gift is yours;’
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‘retain/ A more than Roman Catholic confidence, a faith/ That fails not, in all sorrow my support,/ The blessing of my life—the gift is yours,’
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‘I find/ A never-failing principle of joy/ And purest passion.’
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‘a blessing to mankind.’
