There are several episodes in The Prelude where Wordsworth describes this feeling. I hadn’t read Wordsworth at the time but later when we studied him at school I immediately recognised the feeling of being awed and at the same time fearful of nature – almost as if it was a live presence. I didn’t feel safe until I was back in the caravan. I took off my clothes and stepped into the freezing water and swam as far as the waterfall and then felt suddenly terrified and swam back as quickly as I could. The next morning, before my parents or sister woke, I got out of bed as quietly as I could and climbed up there on my own. It was a magical place, the pool surrounded by ferns and rowan trees and the water so clear that you could see the pebbles on the bottom. We stayed on a farm in Upper Langdale and one day we climbed up the nearby gill to a pool with a waterfall. When I was nine or ten I went to the Lake District with my parents on a caravan holiday. Introduced by a variety of writers, artists and other guests, the Scottish Poetry Library’s classic poem selections are a reminder of wonderful poems to rediscover. Like living men mov’d slowly through my mindīy day and were the trouble of my dreams. Of sea or sky, no colours of green fields īut huge and mighty Forms that do not live There, in her mooring-place, I left my Bark,Īnd, through the meadows homeward went, with graveĪnd serious thoughts and after I had seen With trembling hands I turn’d,Īnd through the silent water stole my way With measur’d motion, like a living thing, ![]() Rose up between me and the stars, and still, I struck, and struck againĪnd, growing still in stature, the huge Cliff When from behind that craggy Steep, till then ![]() Went heaving through the water, like a Swan
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