The speaker of this poem laments that "the fever of the world" has "hung upon the beatings of my heart" before elaborating about a "wanderer thro' the woods.
The speaker of this poem laments that "the fever of the world" has "hung upon the beatings of my heart" before elaborating about a "wanderer thro' the woods." The speaker sees "hedge-rows, hardly hedge-rows" and notices "some Hermit's cave, where by his fire/the Hermit sits alone." After recognizing (*) "gleams of half-extinguished thought", the speaker of this poem notes that "The picture of the mind revives again." This poem ends as an address to the poet's sister Dorothy, and it begins noting that "five years have past." For 10 points, name this poem composed on a return to the River Wye by William Wordsworth.
The speaker of this poem laments that "the fever of the world" has "hung upon the beatings of my heart" before elaborating about a "wanderer thro' the woods.
“Lines Composed a Few Miles above {Tintern Abbey}, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798”