The Prelude. (book V ) Poem Rhyme Scheme

Recent Interactions*

This poem was read 355 times,

This poem was added to the favorite list by 0 members,

This poem was voted by 0 members.

(* Interactions only in the last 7 days)

New Poems

Threatening And Reality
by Obed Yadzo
A Guidebook To My Future Friends
by Aditi Mukherjee
Ndihamba Ndisekhona" Chant Beat: Stomp-stomp-clap, Stomp-stomp-clap
by Asher Chipu
Ledige Praatjies
by Asher Chipu
Life Is Working
by Asher Chipu
The Knocking To The Door
by Asher Chipu
Ubizo: What You Are Called To Do
by Asher Chipu
Sum Obsession
by Asher Chipu
Locust
by Asher Chipu
Eden Passing
by Asher Chipu

Popular Poets

1. Emily Dickinson(2415 poems)
2. Madison Julius Cawein(1231 poems)
3. Ella Wheeler Wilcox(1136 poems)
4. William Wordsworth(1016 poems)
5. Robert Burns(986 poems)
6. Edgar Albert Guest(945 poems)
7. Thomas Moore(849 poems)
8. Robert Service(831 poems)

WHEN Contemplation like the night calm felt	A
Through earth and sky spreads widely and sends deep	B
Into the soul its tranquillising power	C
Even then I sometimes grieve for thee O Man	D
Earth's paramount Creature not so much for woes	E
That thou endurest heavy though that weight be	F
Cloud like it mounts or touched with light divine	G
Doth melt away but for those palms achieved	H
Through length of time by patient exercise	I
Of study and hard thought there there it is	J
That sadness finds its fuel Hitherto	K
In progress through this Verse my mind hath looked	L
Upon the speaking face of earth and heaven	M
As her prime teacher intercourse with man	D
Established by the sovereign Intellect	N
Who through that bodily image hath diffused	O
As might appear to the eye of fleeting time	P
A deathless spirit Thou also man hast wrought	Q
For commerce of thy nature with herself	R
Things that aspire to unconquerable life	S
And yet we feel we cannot choose but feel	T
That they must perish Tremblings of the heart	U
It gives to think that our immortal being	V
No more shall need such garments and yet man	D
As long as he shall be the child of earth	W
Might almost weep to have what he may lose	X
Nor be himself extinguished but survive	Y
Abject depressed forlorn disconsolate	U
A thought is with me sometimes and I say	Z
Should the whole frame of earth by inward throes	E
Be wrenched or fire come down from far to scorch	A2
Her pleasant habitations and dry up	B2
Old Ocean in his bed left singed and bare	C2
Yet would the living Presence still subsist	U
Victorious and composure would ensue	K
And kindlings like the morning presage sure	D2
Of day returning and of life revived	U
But all the meditations of mankind	U
Yea all the adamantine holds of truth	E2
By reason built or passion which itself	R
Is highest reason in a soul sublime	P
The consecrated works of Bard and Sage	F2
Sensuous or intellectual wrought by men	G2
Twin labourers and heirs of the same hopes	H2
Where would they be Oh why hath not the Mind	U
Some element to stamp her image on	I2
In nature somewhat nearer to her own	J2
Why gifted with such powers to send abroad	U
Her spirit must it lodge in shrines so frail	K2
	-
One day when from my lips a like complaint	U
Had fallen in presence of a studious friend	U
He with a smile made answer that in truth	E2
'Twas going far to seek disquietude	U
But on the front of his reproof confessed	U
That he himself had oftentimes given way	Z
To kindred hauntings Whereupon I told	U
That once in the stillness of a summer's noon	L2
While I was seated in a rocky cave	M2
By the sea side perusing so it chanced	U
The famous history of the errant knight	U
Recorded by Cervantes these same thoughts	N2
Beset me and to height unusual rose	E
While listlessly I sate and having closed	U
The book had turned my eyes toward the wide sea	F
On poetry and geometric truth	E2
And their high privilege of lasting life	S
From all internal injury exempt	U
I mused upon these chiefly and at length	O2
My senses yielding to the sultry air	C2
Sleep seized me and I passed into a dream	P2
I saw before me stretched a boundless plain	Q2
Of sandy wilderness all black and void	U
And as I looked around distress and fear	R2
Came creeping over me when at my side	U
Close at my side an uncouth shape appeared	U
Upon a dromedary mounted high	S2
He seemed an Arab of the Bedouin tribes	T2
A lance he bore and underneath one arm	U2
A stone and in the opposite hand a shell	V2
Of a surpassing brightness At the sight	U
Much I rejoiced not doubting but a guide	U
Was present one who with unerring skill	W2
Would through the desert lead me and while yet	U
I looked and looked self questioned what this freight	U
Which the new comer carried through the waste	U
Could mean the Arab told me that the stone	J2
To give it in the language of the dream	P2
Was Euclid's Elements and This said he	F
Is something of more worth and at the word	U
Stretched forth the shell so beautiful in shape	X2
In colour so resplendent with command	U
That I should hold it to my ear I did so	Y2
And heard that instant in an unknown tongue	Z2
Which yet I understood articulate sounds	A3
A loud prophetic blast of harmony	F
An Ode in passion uttered which foretold	U
Destruction to the children of the earth	W
By deluge now at hand No sooner ceased	U
The song than the Arab with calm look declared	U
That all would come to pass of which the voice	B3
Had given forewarning and that he himself	R
Was going then to bury those two books	C3
The one that held acquaintance with the stars	D3
And wedded soul to soul in purest bond	U
Of reason undisturbed by space or time	P
The other that was a god yea many gods	E3
Had voices more than all the winds with power	C
To exhilarate the spirit and to soothe	F3
Through every clime the heart of human kind	U
While this was uttering strange as it may seem	P2
I wondered not although I plainly saw	G3
The one to be a stone the other a shell	V2
Nor doubted once but that they both were books	C3
Having a perfect faith in all that passed	U
Far stronger now grew the desire I felt	U
To cleave unto this man but when I prayed	U
To share his enterprise he hurried on	I2
Reckless of me I followed not unseen	H3
For oftentimes he cast a backward look	I3
Grasping his twofold treasure Lance in rest	U
He rode I keeping pace with him and now	J3
He to my fancy had become the knight	U
Whose tale Cervantes tells yet not the knight	U
But was an Arab of the desert too	U
Of these was neither and was both at once	K3
His countenance meanwhile grew more disturbed	U
And looking backwards when he looked mine eyes	I
Saw over half the wilderness diffused	U
A bed of glittering light I asked the cause	L3
It is said he the waters of the deep	B
Gathering upon us quickening then the pace	M3
Of the unwieldy creature he bestrode	U
He left me I called after him aloud	U
He heeded not but with his twofold charge	N3
Still in his grasp before me full in view	U
Went hurrying o'er the illimitable waste	U
With the fleet waters of a drowning world	U
In chase of him whereat I waked in terror	C
And saw the sea before me and the book	I3
In which I had been reading at my side	U
	-
Full often taking from the world of sleep	B
This Arab phantom which I thus beheld	U
This semi Quixote I to him have given	M
A substance fancied him a living man	D
A gentle dweller in the desert crazed	U
By love and feeling and internal thought	U
Protracted among endless solitudes	M3
Have shaped him wandering upon this quest	U
Nor have I pitied him but rather felt	U
Reverence was due to a being thus employed	U
And thought that in the blind and awful lair	C2
Of such a madness reason did lie couched	U
Enow there are on earth to take in charge	N3
Their wives their children and their virgin loves	M3
Or whatsoever else the heart holds dear	R2
Enow to stir for these yea will I say	M3
Contemplating in soberness the approach	O3
Of an event so dire by signs in earth	W
Or heaven made manifest that I could share	C2
That maniac's fond anxiety and go	Y2
Upon like errand Oftentimes at least	U
Me hath such strong entrancement overcome	P3
When I have held a volume in my hand	U
Poor earthly casket of immortal verse	M3
Shakespeare or Milton labourers divine	G
	-
Great and benign indeed must be the power	C
Of living nature which could thus so long	Q3
Detain me from the best of other guides	M3
And dearest helpers left unthanked unpraised	U
Even in the time of lisping infancy	M3
And later down in prattling childhood even	R3
While I was travelling back among those days	M3
How could I ever play an ingrate's part	U
Once more should I have made those bowers resound	U
By intermingling strains of thankfulness	M3
With their own thoughtless melodies at least	U
It might have well beseemed me to repeat	U
Some simply fashioned tale to tell again	G2
In slender accents of sweet verse some tale	K2
That did bewitch me then and soothes me now	J3
O Friend O Poet brother of my soul	S3
Think not that I could pass along untouched	U
By these remembrances Yet wheref	U

William Wordsworth

The Prelude. (book V ) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

About The Prelude. (book V )

Write your comment about The Prelude. (book V ) poem by William Wordsworth

Recent Interactions*

New Poems

Popular Poets