This poem describes "Small circles glittering idly in the moon, until they melted all into one track of sparkling light."
This poem describes "Small circles glittering idly in the moon, until they melted all into one track of sparkling light." Its narrator laments "Far better never to have heard the name of zeal and just ambition" than to have taken up his main project, and describes himself as "a captiveÂ… coming from a house of bondage." Its narrator describes being frightened by a mountain suddenly looming over him after stealing a (*) boat. The eleventh section of this poem includes the lines "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, but to be young was very heaven!" This poem was, with its author's The Excursion, intended to be part of the ginormous The Recluse. It survives in two main versions from fortyÂ­five years apart. It begins "Oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze," and includes an account of the author's climb up Mount Snowdon. For 10 points, name this long autobiographical poem by William Wordsworth.
This poem describes "Small circles glittering idly in the moon, until they melted all into one track of sparkling light."
The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind; An Autobiographical Poem